1 Corinthians 7:3
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Let the husband render vnto the wife due beneuolence: and likewise also the wife vnto the husband.
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- 1 Peter 3:7Rank 1 from verse 3
7Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
7Likewise ye husbands, dwel with them according to knowledge, giuing honour vnto the wife as vnto the weaker vessel, and as being heires together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.
- Exodus 21:10Rank 2 from verse 3
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1 Corinthians 7:3
Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.
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Sense 1: A married man in relation to his wife. Sense 2: One who manages or cultivates carefully.
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To give, deliver, present, offer, return, repay, yield, perform, or award what is due, required, produced, deserved, or entrusted.
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1. Proper, fitting, or appointed for the stated time, season, order, or occasion. 2. Owed, payable, belonging, deserved, required, or rightfully assigned to a person or purpose.
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benevolence
The reciprocal marital duty owed between husband and wife.
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Sense 1: In the same, similar, or corresponding manner. Sense 2: In a matching case.
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2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
2Neuerthelesse, to auoid fornication, let euery man haue his owne wife, and let euery woman haue her owne husband.
3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
3Let the husband render vnto the wife due beneuolence: and likewise also the wife vnto the husband.
Selected passage4The 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.
4The wife hath not power of her owne body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his owne body, but the wife.