1 Corinthians
King James Version (KJV)


“Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.”
King James Version (KJV)
7:2 Yet, when it is needful, in order to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife. His own - For Christianity allows no polygamy.
1Co 7:2 [To avoid] fornication. To prevent this sin, and the temptations to it in an unmarried state, especially in a vicious community, it was best for each sex that they be married; the normal condition of the sexes.
Neuerthelesse, to auoid fornication, let euery man haue his owne wife, and let euery woman haue her owne husband.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
- American Standard Version (1901)
But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.
- Basic English Bible
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
- Berean Standard Bible Bible
but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each [woman] have her own husband.
- Darby Bible
But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
- Douay-Rheims Bible
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
- English Revised Version
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
- World English Bible