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1 Corinthians 7:2-5 KJV
1 Corinthians · chapter 7 · verses 2–5
2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 4The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. 5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.1 Corinthians 7:2-5 · King James Version
1 Corinthians 7:2-5 in context
1Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
4The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
6But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
7For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
Commentary
Cross references
- Ephesians 5:28
- Ephesians 5:33
- 1 Corinthians 7:9
- Proverbs 18:22
- Proverbs 5:18-19
- 1 Corinthians 6:18
- 1 Peter 3:7
Key words (Strong's)
- Neverthelessdiathrough, of place, with, in, of time, throughout, during, of means, by, by the means of…G1223 →
- Neverthelessdebut, moreover, and, etcG1161 →
- fornicationporneiaillicit sexual intercourse, adultery, fornication, homosexuality, lesbianism, intercourse…G4202 →
- benevolenceeunoiagood will, kindnessG2133 →
- yourselvesscholazōto cease from labour, to loiter, to be free from labour, to be at leisure, to be idle, to…G4980 →
- likewisehomoiōslikewise, equally, in the same wayG3668 →
- togetherepiupon, on, at, by, before, of position, on, at, by, over, against, to, over, on, at…G1909 →
- togetherautoshimself, herself, themselves, itself, he, she, it, the sameG846 →
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The apostle comes now, as a faithful and skilful casuist, to answer some cases of conscience which the Corinthians had proposed to him. Those were things whereof they wrote to him, Co1 7:1. As the lips of ministers should keep knowledge, so the people should ask the law at their mouths.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-9