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.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Adam Clarke
The wife hath not power, etc. - 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 apostle comes now, as a faithful and skilful casuist, to answer some cases of conscience which the Corinthians had proposed to him. Those were things whereof they wrote to him, Co1 7:1. As the…
Cambridge Bible
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 We here are reminded of the valuable principle that in everything…