2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. …
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)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 , 1 Cor. 7:1. As the lips of ministers should keep knowledge , so the people should ask the law at their mouths . The apostle was as ready to resolve as they were to propose their doubts. In the former chapter, he warns…
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