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1 Corinthians 7:1-3
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 Corinthians 7:1-3
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Directions concerning Marriage
7 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote. It is well for a man not to touch a woman. 2 But because of the temptation to immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.[a] 3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
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- 7.2 Note Paul’s insistence on equality of man and woman in certain aspects of Christian marriage, and his recognition that the unmarried state is also a gift from God.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
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