NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 2

1 Corinthians 7:2

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But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

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1 Corinthians 7:1–5

1

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

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But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

3

Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband.

4

The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

5

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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