Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
But, because of the fornications, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband.
New American Standard Bible
But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.
King James Version
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Holman Bible
But because sexual immorality is so common,
International Standard Version
Because sexual immorality is so rampant, every man should have his own wife, and every woman should have her own husband.
A Conservative Version
But because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
American Standard Version
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Amplified
But because of [the temptation to participate in] sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
An Understandable Version
But, because of so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
Anderson New Testament
But, to avoid lewd practices, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.
Bible in Basic English
But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.
Common New Testament
But because of immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
Daniel Mace New Testament
I answer, with regard to the licentious, it is best for a man, to have his wife; and for a woman to have her husband.
Darby Translation
but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband.
Godbey New Testament
but on account of fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Goodspeed New Testament
But there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own, and every woman a husband of her own.
John Wesley New Testament
Yet, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife; and let every woman have her own husband.
Julia Smith Translation
And, on account of fornication, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband.
King James 2000
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife and let each woman have her own husband.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his wife: and let every woman have her husband.
Moffatt New Testament
but there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own and every woman a husband of her own.
Montgomery New Testament
but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband.
NET Bible
But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.
New Heart English Bible
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Noyes New Testament
but on account of the commonness of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.
Sawyer New Testament
but on account of fornications, let each man have his wife, and each woman have her husband.
The Emphasized Bible
But, on account of fornications, let, each man, have, his own wife, and, each woman, have, her own husband:
Thomas Haweis New Testament
But because of the whoredoms, let every man have his own wife, and every wife her own husband.
Twentieth Century New Testament
But, owing to the prevalence of immorality, I advise every man to have his own wife, and every woman her husband.
Webster
Nevertheless, to avoid lewdness, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Weymouth New Testament
But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.
Williams New Testament
but because of so much sexual immorality every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman a husband of her own.
World English Bible
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Worrell New Testament
but, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Worsley New Testament
Nevertheless to prevent whoredoms, let every one have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Youngs Literal Translation
and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;
Themes
Defrauding » Not defrauding others
Husbands' » Should have but one wife
Marriage » The duties of a husband
Marriage » The duties of a wife
Marriage » Why you should get married
Marriage » Designed for » Preventing fornication
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References
Watsons
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 7:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Concerning Christian Marriage
1 Now concerning what you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 But, because of the fornications, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband. 3 Let the husband give to the wife proper kindness, and likewise the wife also to the husband.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:9
But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.
Proverbs 5:18-19
Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
Proverbs 18:22
Whoever finds a wife finds good and gets favor from Jehovah.
Proverbs 19:14
Houses and riches are the inheritance of fathers, and a prudent wife is from Jehovah.
Malachi 2:14
Yet you say, Why? Because Jehovah has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously; yet she is your companion and your covenant wife.
1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.
Ephesians 5:28
So men ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:33
But also let everyone of you in particular so love his wife even as himself, and the wife that she defers to her husband.
1 Timothy 4:3
forbidding to marry, saying to abstain from foods which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.