1 Corinthians 7:3
Modern Translations
New International Version
The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

New Living Translation
The husband should fulfill his wife’s sexual needs, and the wife should fulfill her husband’s needs.

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

Berean Study Bible
The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

New American Standard Bible
The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise the wife also to her husband.

NASB 1995
The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

NASB 1977
Let the husband fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

Amplified Bible
The husband must fulfill his [marital] duty to his wife [with good will and kindness], and likewise the wife to her husband.

Christian Standard Bible
A husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A husband should fulfill his marital responsibility to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband.

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

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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Husbands and wives should satisfy each other's [sexual] needs.

International Standard Version
A husband should fulfill his obligation to his wife, and a wife should do the same for her husband.

NET Bible
A husband should give to his wife her sexual rights, and likewise a wife to her husband.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

New King James Version
Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

King James 2000 Bible
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

New Heart English Bible
Let the husband fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

World English Bible
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

American King James Version
Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband.

American Standard Version
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

A Faithful Version
Let the husband render his conjugal dues to his wife, and in the same way also the wife to her husband.

Darby Bible Translation
Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like manner the wife to the husband.

English Revised Version
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

Webster's Bible Translation
Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Let the husbande giue vnto the wife due beneuolence, and likewise also the wife vnto the husband.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Let the husbande geue vnto the wyfe due beneuolence: Lykewyse also the wyfe vnto the husbande.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Let the ma geue vnto the wife due beneuolence: likewyse also the wife vnto ye man.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Let the man geve vnto the wyfe due benevolence. Lykwyse also the wyfe vnto the man.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
to the wife let the husband render the due benevolence, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

Berean Literal Bible
Let the husband fulfill the duty to the wife, and likewise also the wife to the husband.

Young's Literal Translation
to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

Smith's Literal Translation
Let the husband return to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband.

Literal Emphasis Translation
Let the husband give his due to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
A husband should fulfill his obligation to his wife, and a wife should also act similarly toward her husband.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Let a man bestow to his wife the love that is owed; in this way also, the woman to her husband.

Lamsa Bible
Let the husband give to his wife the love which he owes her; and likewise also the wife to her husband.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
Let the husband render to the wife that which is due, and likewise, also, the wife to the husband.

Godbey New Testament
Let the husband give to the wife that which is due, and likewise the wife also to the husband.

Haweis New Testament
Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence, and in like manner also the wife to the husband.

Mace New Testament
let the husband discharge his obligations to his wife: and likewise the wife to the husband.

Weymouth New Testament
Let a man pay his wife her due, and let a woman also pay her husband his.

Worrell New Testament
Let the husband render to the wife her due; and, in like manner, the wife to the husband.

Worsley New Testament
Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence; and in like manner also the wife to the husband.
















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