Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

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But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.

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28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.

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28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives(A) as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

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33 Nevertheless (A)let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she (B)respects her husband.

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33 However, each one of you also must love his wife(A) as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

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but (A)if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

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But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry,(A) for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

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22 (A)He who finds a wife finds a good thing,
And obtains favor from the Lord.

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22 He who finds a wife finds what is good(A)
    and receives favor from the Lord.(B)

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18 Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice with (A)the wife of your youth.
19 (B)As a loving deer and a graceful doe,
Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
And always be [a]enraptured with her love.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:19 Lit. intoxicated

18 May your fountain(A) be blessed,
    and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.(B)
19 A loving doe, a graceful deer(C)
    may her breasts satisfy you always,
    may you ever be intoxicated with her love.

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18 (A)Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins (B)against his own body.

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18 Flee from sexual immorality.(A) All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.(B)

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forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

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They forbid people to marry(A) and order them to abstain from certain foods,(B) which God created(C) to be received with thanksgiving(D) by those who believe and who know the truth.

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14 Yet you say, “For what reason?”
Because the Lord has been witness
Between you and (A)the wife of your youth,
With whom you have dealt treacherously;
(B)Yet she is your companion
And your wife by covenant.

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14 You ask,(A) “Why?” It is because the Lord is the witness(B) between you and the wife of your youth.(C) You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.(D)

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14 (A)Houses and riches are an inheritance from fathers,
But (B)a prudent wife is from the Lord.

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14 Houses and wealth are inherited from parents,(A)
    but a prudent wife is from the Lord.(B)

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