1 Corinthians 7:2 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

English ASV

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

English Amplified

But because of the temptation to impurity and to avoid immorality, let each [man] have his own wife and let each [woman] have her own husband.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

But because of the temptation to impurity and to avoid immorality, let each [man] have his own wife and let each [woman] have her own husband.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

But because sexual immorality is so common, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman should have sexual relations with her own husband.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each [woman] have her own husband.

English EASY 2024

That may be true, but then people may have sex in wrong ways. So every man should have his own wife and every woman should have her own husband.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

But sexual sin is a danger, so each man should enjoy his own wife, and each woman should enjoy her own husband.

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

But because there is so much immorality, every man should have his own wife, and every woman should have her own husband.

English God's Word - GW 1995

But in order to avoid sexual sins, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

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

English KJV 1611

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

English LSB

But because of sexual immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

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

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

but because of cases of immorality every man should have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

But since there is so much sexual sin, each man should have his own wife. And each woman should have her own husband.

English NIV

But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

English NKJ 1982

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

English NLT

But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

But because of cases of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

Perhaps. But because of the danger of immorality, each husband should have sexual intimacy with his wife and each wife should have sexual intimacy with her husband.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

But because of the temptation to immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

But usually it is best to be married, each man having his own wife, and each woman having her own husband, because otherwise you might fall back into sin.

English Tyndale 1537

Nevertheless to avoid fornication,(whoredom) let every man have his wife: and let every woman have her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:2 — Compare Translations