1 Corinthians 7:4
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.

New Revised 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.

Contemporary English Version
A wife belongs to her husband instead of to herself, and a husband belongs to his wife instead of to himself.

New American Bible
A wife does not have authority over her own body, but rather her husband, and similarly a husband does not have authority over his own body, but rather his 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Hosea 3:3 And I said to her: Thou shalt wait for me many days: thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt be no man's, and I also will wait for thee.

Matthew 19:9 And I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.

Mark 10:11,12 And he saith to them: Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another committeth adultery against her. . . .

Context
Principles of Marriage
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. 5Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer: and return together again, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:3
Let the husband render the debt to his wife: and the wife also in like manner to the husband.

1 Corinthians 7:5
Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer: and return together again, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency.

1 Corinthians 7:3
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