1 Corinthians 7:4

World English Bible (2000)

The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.

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Referenced Verses

  • Hos 3:3 : 3 I said to her, "You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you."
  • Matt 19:9 : 9 I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery."
  • Mark 10:11-12 : 11 He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. 12 If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."

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  • 1 Cor 7:1-3
    3 verses
    86%

    1Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

    2But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

    3Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

  • 1 Cor 7:5-6
    2 verses
    85%

    5Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

    6But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

  • 1 Cor 7:16
    77%

    16For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

  • Eph 5:28-29
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    28Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

    29For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

  • Rom 7:1-4
    4 verses
    76%

    1Or don't you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

    2For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

    3So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

    4Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

  • 1 Cor 7:9-14
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    9But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.

    10But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband

    11(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

    12But to the rest I--not the Lord--say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

    13The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

    14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

  • 1 Cor 7:39-40
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    39A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.

    40But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God's Spirit.

  • Eph 5:22-25
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    22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

    23For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

    24But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

    25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

  • 1 Cor 7:33-35
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    33but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

    34There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world--how she may please her husband.

    35This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

  • 1 Cor 11:11-12
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    11Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

    12For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

  • 1 Cor 6:15-16
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    15Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

    16Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."

  • 1 Pet 3:7
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    7You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

  • Eph 5:31-33
    3 verses
    73%

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

    32This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

    33Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    73%

    27Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

  • 1 Thess 4:4
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    4that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

  • Mark 10:7-8
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    7For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

    8and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 11:7-8
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    7For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

    8For man is not from woman, but woman from man;

  • 1 Cor 9:5
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    5Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

  • 1 Cor 6:19
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    19Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

  • Gen 2:24
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    24Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 11:3
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    3But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

  • Col 3:18
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    18Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

  • 1 Pet 3:1
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    1In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    13"Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

  • 1 Cor 7:37
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    37But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well.