1 Corinthians 7:1-4
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.
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.
The Corinthians asked Paul about what God wanted them to do about relationships between men and women, and he began with the hands off approach. He meant they should not get intimate unless married, and if the urges grew strong, to marry for the designed moral place for intimacy. Couples then give each other that affection, not to others. It comes down to authority as God has over us; in marriage, each has authority over the other in matters of the body for intimacy. We do not flirt with other false gods or idols (having been joined to Christ as His bride), and we must not in the marriage realm either. Holy is the marriage covenant, just as we are to be holy for our Lord in union with Him.
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