“Let the husband render vnto the wife due beneuolence: and likewise also the wife vnto the husband.”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
- King James Version
The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Let the husband give to the wife what is right; and let the wife do the same to the husband.
- Basic English Bible
Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like manner the wife to the husband.
- Darby Bible
Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband.
- Webster's Bible
Let a man pay his wife her due, and let a woman also pay her husband his.
- Weymouth Bible
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
- World English Bible
The hosebonde yelde dette to the wijf, and also the wijf to the hosebonde.
- Wycliffe Bible
to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for 1 Corinthians 7:3
7:3 Let not married persons fancy that there is any perfection in living with each other, as if they were unmarried. The debt - This ancient reading seems far more natural than the common one.
People's Bible Notes for 1 Corinthians 7:3
1Co 7:3 Let the husband render unto the wife, etc. Marriage is a state of mutual obligations. Each must yield to the other what those obligations require.