1 Corinthians 7:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

A husband should fulfill his marital responsibility to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 21:10 : 10 If he takes another wife, he must not diminish the first one’s food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
  • 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 7:4-6
    3 verses
    86%

    4It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.

    5Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then resume your relationship, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

    6I say this as a concession, not as a command.

  • 1 Cor 7:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    1Celibacy and Marriage Now with regard to the issues you wrote about:“It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”

    2But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.

  • Eph 5:31-33
    3 verses
    79%

    31For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

    32This mystery is great– but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

    33Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

  • Eph 5:28-29
    2 verses
    78%

    28In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

    29For no one has ever hated his own body, but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,

  • 1 Pet 3:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers.

    8Suffering for Doing Good Finally, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, affectionate, compassionate, and humble.

  • Col 3:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    18Exhortation to Households Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

    19Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.

  • Eph 5:22-25
    4 verses
    77%

    22Exhortations to Households Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,

    23because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church(he himself being the savior of the body).

    24But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

    25Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her

  • 1 Cor 7:10-14
    5 verses
    76%

    10To the married I give this command– not I, but the Lord– a wife should not divorce a husband

    11(but if she does, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband), and a husband should not divorce his wife.

    12To the rest I say– I, not the Lord– if a brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is happy to live with him, he should not divorce her.

    13And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is happy to live with her, she should not divorce him.

    14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified because of the wife, and the unbelieving wife because of her husband. Otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

  • 1 Pet 3:1
    75%

    1Wives and Husbands In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands. Then, even if some are disobedient to the word, they will be won over without a word by the way you live,

  • 1 Cor 7:33-36
    4 verses
    74%

    33But a married man is concerned about the things of the world, how to please his wife,

    34and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world, how to please her husband.

    35I am saying this for your benefit, not to place a limitation on you, but so that without distraction you may give notable and constant service to the Lord.

    36If anyone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the bloom of youth and it seems necessary, he should do what he wishes; he does not sin. Let them marry.

  • 1 Cor 7:16
    73%

    16For how do you know, wife, whether you will bring your husband to salvation? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will bring your wife to salvation?

  • Mark 10:7
    73%

    7For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,

  • Rom 7:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.

    3So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.

  • 1 Cor 7:38-39
    2 verses
    72%

    38So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, but the one who does not, does better.

    39A wife is bound as long as her husband is living. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes(only someone in the Lord).

  • 1 Cor 11:11
    72%

    11In any case, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.

  • 1 Pet 3:5
    72%

    5For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands,

  • Gen 2:24
    71%

    24That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

  • Exod 21:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10If he takes another wife, he must not diminish the first one’s food, her clothing, or her marital rights.

    11If he does not provide her with these three things, then she will go out free, without paying money.

  • Deut 24:1
    70%

    1If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something indecent in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    70%

    27The one bound to a wife should not seek divorce. The one released from a wife should not seek marriage.

  • Job 31:10
    69%

    10then let my wife turn the millstone for another man, and may other men commit adultery with her.

  • 1 Cor 11:7
    69%

    7For a man should not have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

  • Rom 13:7
    69%

    7Pay everyone what is owed: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

  • 1 Cor 11:3
    69%

    3But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.

  • Num 30:6-7
    2 verses
    69%

    6Vows Made by Married Women“And if she marries a husband while under a vow, or she uttered anything impulsively by which she has pledged herself,

    7and her husband hears about it, but remains silent about her when he hears about it, then her vows will stand and her obligations which she has pledged for herself will stand.

  • Titus 2:5
    69%

    5to be self-controlled, pure, fulfilling their duties at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message of God may not be discredited.

  • Num 30:11
    68%

    11and her husband heard about it, but remained silent about her, and did not overrule her, then all her vows will stand, and every obligation which she pledged for herself will stand.

  • Matt 19:5
    68%

    5and said,‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?