1 Corinthians 7:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

1 Corinthians 7:3 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 3:7
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Exodus 21:10
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

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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 the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3-4. The duty of cohabitation on the part of the married. due benevolence--The oldest manuscripts read simply, “her due”; that is, the conjugal cohabitation due by the marriage contract (compare 1Co 7:4).