Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;
New American Standard Bible
The husband must
King James Version
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Holman Bible
A husband should fulfill his marital responsibility
International Standard Version
A husband should fulfill his obligation to his wife, and a wife should do the same for her husband.
A Conservative Version
Let the husband render the goodwill owed to the wife, and likewise also the wife to the husband.
American Standard Version
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Amplified
The husband must fulfill his [marital] duty to his wife [with good will and kindness], and likewise the wife to her husband.
An Understandable Version
The husband should fulfill his [marital] duty to his wife, and the wife should do the same thing for her husband.
Anderson New Testament
Let the husband render to the wife that which is due, and likewise, also, the wife to the husband.
Bible in Basic English
Let the husband give to the wife what is right; and let the wife do the same to the husband.
Common New Testament
The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.
Daniel Mace New Testament
let the husband discharge his obligations to his wife: and likewise the wife to the husband.
Darby Translation
Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like manner the wife to the husband.
Godbey New Testament
Let the husband give to the wife that which is due, and likewise the wife also to the husband.
Goodspeed New Testament
The husband must give his wife what is due her, and the wife must do the same by her husband.
John Wesley New Testament
Let the husband render the debt to the wife; and in like manner the wife also to the husband.
Julia Smith Translation
Let the husband return to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband.
King James 2000
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The husband must fulfill his obligation to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
Modern King James verseion
Let the husband give to the wife proper kindness, and likewise the wife also to the husband.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let the man give unto the wife due benevolence. Likewise also the wife unto the man.
Moffatt New Testament
The husband must give the wife her conjugal dues, and the wife in the same way must give her husband his;
Montgomery New Testament
Let the husband give his wife her due, and likewise the wife her husband. The wife is not mistress of her own person,
NET Bible
A husband should give to his wife her sexual rights, and likewise a wife to her husband.
New Heart English Bible
Let the husband fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
Noyes New Testament
Let the husband render to his wife her due; and so also the wife to her husband.
Sawyer New Testament
Let the husband render to the wife her due, and in like manner also the wife the husband.
The Emphasized Bible
Unto the wife, let the husband render what is her due, and, in like manner, the wife also, unto the husband, -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence, and in like manner also the wife to the husband.
Twentieth Century New Testament
A husband should give his wife her due, and a wife her husband.
Webster
Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband.
Weymouth New Testament
Let a man pay his wife her due, and let a woman also pay her husband his.
Williams New Testament
The husband must always give his wife what is due her, and the wife too must do so for her husband.
World English Bible
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
Worrell New Testament
Let the husband render to the wife her due; and, in like manner, the wife to the husband.
Worsley New Testament
Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence; and in like manner also the wife to the 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 » The rights of marriage
Sexual activities » Avoiding fornication
Stoicism » Paul teaches » Celibacy
Wives » Duties of, to their husbands » To be faithful to them
Interlinear
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References
Watsons
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 7:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Concerning Christian Marriage
2 and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband; 3 to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband; 4 the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 21:10
If another woman he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw;
1 Peter 3:7
The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with them, according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel -- to the wife -- imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.