A moment in scripture
1 Corinthians 7:2
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Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
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The surrounding passage
- 1 Corinthians 7:1
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
- 1 Corinthians 7:3
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
- 1 Corinthians 7:4
The 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.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.