◄ 1 Corinthians 7:3 ►
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Good News Translation
A man should fulfill his duty as a husband, and a woman should fulfill her duty as a wife, and each should satisfy the other's needs.

New Revised Standard Version
The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.

Contemporary English Version
Husbands and wives should be fair with each other about having sex.

New American Bible
The husband should fulfill his duty toward his wife, and likewise the wife toward her husband.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let the husband render the debt to his wife: and the wife also in like manner to the husband.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let the husband render the debt to his wife: and the wife also in like manner to the husband.

Exodus 21:10 And if he take another wife for him, he shall provide her a marriage, and raiment, neither shall he refuse the price of her chastity.

1 Peter 3:7 Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.

Context
Principles of Marriage
…2But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife: and let every woman have her own husband. 3Let the husband render the debt to his wife: and the wife also in like manner to the husband. 4The wife hath not power of her own body: but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body: but the wife.…
Cross References
Exodus 21:10
And if he take another wife for him, he shall provide her a marriage, and raiment, neither shall he refuse the price of her chastity.

1 Corinthians 7:2
But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife: and let every woman have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 7:4
The wife hath not power of her own body: but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body: but the wife.

1 Corinthians 7:2
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