1Co 7:2
Nevertheless, {to avoid} fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
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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.
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet {is} she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
House and riches {are} the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife {is} from the LORD.
Forbidding to marry, {and commanding} to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
{Whoso} findeth a wife findeth a good {thing}, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
Marriage {is} honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
For this is the will of God, {even} your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
But he said unto them, All {men} cannot receive this saying, save {they} to whom it is given.
That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and {from} fornication, and {from} things strangled, and {from} blood.
And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. {residue: or, excellency} {godly...: Heb. seed of God} {treacherously: or, unfaithfully}
And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, {that} ye should be guilty. {Be favourable...: or, Gratify us in them}