Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her,† and likewise also the wife her husband.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Corinthians 7:3 in context
1 Corinthians 7:1–6
1
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
3
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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.
6
But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
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- NU and TR have “what is owed her” instead of “the affection owed her”.
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