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New King James Version

1 Corinthians 7:4

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Continence;   Marriage;   Stoicism;   Wife;   Scofield Reference Index - Holy Spirit;   The Topic Concordance - Defrauding;   Marriage;   Sexual Activities;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Husbands;   Wives;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Husband;   Marriage;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Polygamy;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Wife;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Adultery;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Family;   Marriage;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   1 Corinthians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;   Woman;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Abstinence;   Worldliness;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Corinthians;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Authority in Religion;   Benevolence;   Of;   Papyrus;   Text and Manuscripts of the New Testament;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
The wife does not have power over her own body. Her husband has the power over her body. And the husband does not have power over his own body. His wife has the power over his body.
Revised Standard Version
For the wife does not rule over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not rule over his own body, but the wife does.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
The wyfe hath not power over her awne body: but the husbande. And lykewyse the man hath not power over his awne body: but the wyfe
Hebrew Names Version
The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.
International Standard Version
A wife does not have authority over her own body, but her husband does. In the same way, a husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but his wife does.
New American Standard Bible
The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise the husband also does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
New Century Version
The wife does not have full rights over her own body; her husband shares them. And the husband does not have full rights over his own body; his wife shares them.
Update Bible Version
The wife does not have power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband does not have power over his own body, but the wife.
Webster's Bible Translation
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
English Standard Version
For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
World English Bible
The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband; and in like manner the husband also hath not power over his own body, but the wife.
Weymouth's New Testament
A married woman is not mistress of her own person: her husband has certain rights. In the same way a married man is not master of his own person: his wife has certain rights.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The womman hath not power of hir bodi, but the hosebonde; and the hosebonde hath not power of his bodi, but the womman.
English Revised Version
The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.
Berean Standard Bible
The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.
Contemporary English Version
A wife belongs to her husband instead of to herself, and a husband belongs to his wife instead of to himself.
Amplified Bible
The wife does not have [exclusive] authority over her own body, but the husband shares with her; and likewise the husband does not have [exclusive] authority over his body, but the wife shares with him.
American Standard Version
The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.
Bible in Basic English
The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.
Complete Jewish Bible
The wife is not in charge of her own body, but her husband is; likewise, the husband is not in charge of his own body, but his wife is.
Darby Translation
The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband: in like manner also the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife.
Etheridge Translation
so also the wife to her husband. For the wife hath not authority over her body, but the husband; so also the man hath not authority over his body, but his wife.
Murdock Translation
The woman is not the sovereign over her body, but her husband: so also the man is not the sovereign over his body, but the wife.
King James Version (1611)
The wife hath not power of her owne body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his owne body, but the wife.
New Living Translation
The wife gives authority over her body to her husband, and the husband gives authority over his body to his wife.
New Life Bible
The wife is not the boss of her own body. It belongs to the husband. And in the same way, the husband is not the boss of his own body. It belongs to the wife.
New Revised Standard
For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The wife hath not the power of her owne bodie, but ye husband: & likewise also the husband hath not ye power of his own body, but the wife.
George Lamsa Translation
The wife has no authority over her own body, but her husband; and likewise also the husband has no authority over his own body, but his wife.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The wife, over her own body, hath not authority, but the husband, and, in like manner, the husband also, over his own body, hath not authority, but the wife.
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The wyfe hath not the power of her owne body, but the husbande: And likewyse also the husbande hath not the power of his owne body, but the wife.
Good News Translation
A wife is not the master of her own body, but her husband is; in the same way a husband is not the master of his own body, but his wife is.
Christian Standard Bible®
A wife does not have the right over her own body, but her husband does. In the same way, a husband does not have the right over his own body, but his wife does.
King James Version
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
Lexham English Bible
The wife does not have authority over her own body, but her husband does. And likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but his wife does.
Literal Translation
The wife does not have authority of her own body, but the husband. And likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.
Young's Literal Translation
the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The wife hath not power ouer hir awne body, but the hussbande: & likewyse the man hath not power ouer his awne body, but the wife.
Mace New Testament (1729)
the wife has not the right of her own person, but the husband: and so likewise the husband has not the right of his own person, but the wife.
New English Translation
It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.
Simplified Cowboy Version
The wife gives her body to her husband, and the husband gives his body to his wife.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
Legacy Standard Bible
The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

Contextual Overview

1 Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 But I say this as a concession, not as a commandment. 7 For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that. 8 But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am; 9 but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hosea 3:3, Matthew 19:9, Mark 10:11, Mark 10:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:16 - rule Numbers 30:8 - General Matthew 5:32 - whosoever Matthew 19:5 - and they Luke 16:18 - General Romans 7:2 - the woman

Cross-References

Genesis 2:5
before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;
Genesis 6:3
And the Lord said, "My Spirit shall not strive [fn] with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."
Genesis 6:7
So the LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."
Genesis 6:13
Hebrews 11:7; 1 Peter 3:20">[xr] And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 6:17
And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.
Genesis 7:10
And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Genesis 7:12
And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7:17
Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.
Genesis 7:21
And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The wife hath not power of her own body,.... To refrain the use of it from her husband; or to prostitute it to another man:

but the husband; he has the sole power over it, and may require when he pleases the use of it:

and likewise also the husband has not power over his own body: to withhold due benevolence, or the conjugal debt from his wife; or abuse it by self-pollution, fornication, adultery, sodomy, or any acts of uncleanness: but the wife; she only has a power over it, a right to it, and may claim the use of it: this power over each other's bodies is not such, as that they may, by consent, either the husband allow the wife, or the wife the husband, to lie with another.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The wife hath not power ... - By the marriage covenant that power, in this respect, is transferred to the husband,

And likewise, also, the husband - The equal rights of husband and wife, in the Scriptures, are everywhere maintained. They are to regard themselves as united in most intimate union, and in most tender ties.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 7:4. The wife hath not power, c.] Her person belongs to her husband her husband's person belongs to her: neither of them has any authority to refuse what the other has a matrimonial right to demand. The woman that would act so is either a knave or a fool. It would be trifling to attribute her conduct to any other cause than weakness or folly. She does not love her husband; or she loves some one else better than her husband; or she makes pretensions to a fancied sanctity unsupported by Scripture or common sense.


 
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