Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
1 Corinthians 7:3
τὴν ὀφειλήν אABCDEFG, Vetus Lat., Vulg., Tertullian, and every version of importance except the Peshito, which, with rec., has τὴν ὀφειλομένην εὔνοιαν.
3. τὴν ὀφειλήν. What is due, the debt.
τὴν ὀφειλήν אABCDEFG, Vetus Lat., Vulg., Tertullian, and every version of importance except the Peshito, which, with rec., has τὴν ὀφειλομένην εὔνοιαν.
3. τὴν ὀφειλήν. What is due, the debt.
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Verse 1 Corinthians 7:3. _LET THE HUSBAND RENDER UNTO THE WIFE DUE BENEVOLENCE_] την οφειλομενην ευνοιαν. Though our version is no translation of the original, yet few persons are at a loss for the m...
LET THE HUSBAND ... - “Let them not imagine that there is any virtue in bring separate from each other, as if they were in a state of celibacy” - “Doddridge.” They are bound to each other; in every wa...
4. CONCERNING THE RELATIONSHIP OF MAN AND WOMAN CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Single and the Married Life. (1 Corinthians 7:1)._ 2. Separation and Divorce. (1 Corinthians 7:10). 3. Abiding in the Different Ca...
1 CORINTHIANS 7. PROBLEMS AS TO MARRIAGE, CELIBACY, AND DIVORCE. At this point Paul takes up a letter sent by the Corinthian church inviting his judgment on various questions, apparently indicating th...
Let the husband give to the wife all that is due to her; and in the same way let the wife give to the husband all that is due to him. A wife is not in absolute control of her own body, but her husband...
COMPLETE ASCETICISM (1 Corinthians 7:1-2)...
BENEVOLENCE. Greek. _eunoia._ Only here and Ephesians 6:7. but instead of "due benevolence", all the texts read "the debt", Greek. _opheile,_ which Occurs elsewhere only in Matthew 18:32.Romans 13:7....
_due benevolence_ The better supported reading is WHAT IS DUE, the DEBT....
_CONCERNING THE MARRIED LIFE 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1-9:_ Paul was questioned as to whether people should even marry at all. He begins, "Now I will answer the questions that you asked in your letter. You ask...
ΓΥΝΑΙΚΊ _dat. sing. от_ ΓΥΝΉ (G1135) жена. _Dat._ в роли косвенного дополнения ΌΦΕΙΛΉ (G3782) обязанность, долг. Особые обязанности супругов друг перед другом, эвфемизм для сексуальных отношений (Lens...
DUE BENEVOLENCE— _What is due._ Wells. _Benevolence_ here signifies that complacency and compliance which every married couple ought to have for each other, with respect to their mutual satisfaction....
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 The Purity of Marriage (1 Corinthians 7:1-9) 7 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote. It is well for a man not to touch a woman. 2But because of the temptation...
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. Duty of cohabitation between the married. DUE BENEVOLENCE. 'Aleph (') A B C Delta G f g, Vulgate,...
1 It is unfortunate that our word "judge" usually takes on the sense of condemnation. The saints are not to condemn the world but to rule it during the eons. Saints in Israel will possess the kingdom...
DUE BENEVOLENCE] RV 'her due'; i.e. primarily, cohabitation....
_(A) ANSWER TO QUESTIONS ABOUT MARRIAGE_ The Corinthians had in their letter (1 Corinthians 7:1) asked St. Paul's opinion on several points connectedwithmarriage. His language in reply is guarded; he...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 7 ADVICE ABOUT WHETHER TO MARRY 7:1-2 V1 But now I will deal with the matters that you wrote about. It is good for a man not to marry. V2...
LET THE HUSBAND RENDER UNTO THE WIFE DUE BENEVOLENCE. — Rather, _Let the husband render unto the wife her due_ — such being the reading of the better MSS. In this verse the Apostle answers the scruple...
CHAPTER 11 MARRIAGE THERE are two preliminary considerations which throw some light on this much-contested passage. First, Paul had to speak about marriage as he found it, as it existed among those t...
§ 20. MARRIAGE OR CELIBACY? At this point the Ap. takes up the questions addressed to him by the Cor [993] Church (see _Introd_., chap. 2). In replying to Paul's previous letter, they had asked for cl...
Within the bonds of wedlock, “the due” should be yielded (1 Corinthians 7:3) by each for the satisfaction and according to the rights of the other (1 Corinthians 7:4). This dictum defends marital inte...
MARRIAGE BONDS 1 Corinthians 7:1 The Apostle first addresses the unmarried, 1 Corinthians 7:1, _etc_. He speaks elsewhere reverently of marriage, Ephesians 5:23. Forbidding to marry is in his j
Certain difficulties had arisen in the Corinthian Church concerning which they had sent inquiries to Paul. He now answers their questions. These answers contain principles of permanent application. Th...
Should A Single Christian Marry? Paul turned from dealing with problems of which he had heard to questions the Corinthians had asked. The first question, as seen by McGarvey, was, "Is marriage to be d...
(2) Let the husband render unto the wife (c) due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. (2) Secondly, he shows that the parties married must with singular affection entirely love o...
Notwithstanding the intrinsic excellence of celibacy, marriage should be the rule in practice. Such is the general meaning of this first passage....
“Let the husband render unto the wife her due, and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 4. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband; and likewise also the husband hath not power of...
(1) Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. (2) Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
3._The husband to the wife. _He now prescribes the rules to be observed in the marriage connection, or he teaches what is the duty of husband and wife. And in the first place he lays down a general do...
The apostle proceeds by answering a question in connection with the subject he had been treating the will of God with regard to the relationship between man and woman. They do well who remain outside...
LET THE HUSBAND RENDER UNTO THE WIFE DUE BENEVOLENCE,.... The Syriac version renders it, חובא דמתתחיב, "due love"; and so the Arabic; and may include all the offices of love, tenderness, humanity, car...
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. Ver. 3. _Let the husband, &c._] Let them be chaste between themselves, and beware both of excess and...
_Let the husband_ Where this relation is commenced; _render unto the wife_, Την οφειλομενην ευνοιαν, _the due benevolence_ That is, the conjugal duty, the duty resulting from the nature of the marriag...
DUE BENEVOLENCE; these words express the mutual duty of husband and wife towards each other, as explained in verses 1 Corinthians 7:4-5. Whatever increases temptations to evils which marriage was desi...
LET THE HUSBAND RENDER UNTO THE WIFE DUE BENEVOLENCE, AND LIKEWISE ALSO THE WIFE UNTO THE HUSBAND....
INSTRUCTIONS WITH REGARD TO MARRIAGE. The propriety and the duty of marriage:...
Those things in Chapter s 5 and 6, which were of such serious importance as demanding correction, had evidently not even been questions in the minds of the Corinthians. But Paul was required to raise...
LET THE HUSBAND RENDER UNTO THE WIFE HER DUE: AND LIKEWISE ALSO THE WIFE UNTO THE HUSBAND. One might ask, what do verses 3-6 have to do with the previous points? 'In verse. he has said that celibacy...
1-9 The apostle tells the Corinthians that it was good, in that juncture of time, for Christians to keep themselves single. Yet he says that marriage, and the comforts of that state, are settled by D...
The word translated _due benevolence, _ signifieth due goodwill or kindness, but from 1 CORINTHIANS 7:5, it appeareth what the apostle meaneth: Moses, EXODUS 21:10, calleth it, the _duty of marriage;...
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband....
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III ut "vir reddat debiturn uxori, et uxor viro, et ne frustrentur invicem"[179] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III per dictionem, "fraudetis," ostendens ma...
1 Corinthians 7:3 Let G591 husband G435 render G591 (G5720) wife G1135 affection G2133 due G3784 (G5746) and...
‘Let the husband render to the wife her due, and likewise also the wife to the husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. And likewise the husband also does not have...
1 Corinthians 7:3. LET THE HUSBAND RENDER UNTO THE WIFE HER DUE, [1] etc. [1] The received reading, “due benevolence,” has hardly any authority....
RENDER THE DUE (την οφειλην αποδιδοτω). Marriage is not simply not wrong, but for many a duty. Both husband and wife have a mutual obligation to the other. "This dictum defends marital intercourse...
CONTENTS: Sanctity of marriage. Regulation of marriage among Gentile believers. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: Marriage is by divine wisdom prescribed for the preventing of f...
It is evident from the tenor of this chapter that the Corinthians had written to the apostle for advice on the subject of marriage and its obligations, and that he is here resolving their various diff...
AND EACH SHOULD SATISFY THE OTHER'S NEEDS. God's original marriage-law (see note on 1 Corinthians 7:2) shows that by His decree, husband and wife are to satisfy each other's physical and emotional nee...
_Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman._ MARRIAGE I. Is not necessary for all (1 Corinthians 7:1). 1. Instituted by God, sanctified by Christ,...
CHAPTER 7 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER In this chapter he answers five questions of the Corinthians about the laws of matrimony, and about the counsel of virginity and celibacy i. The first question is...
_Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence._ A modest paraphrase for the conjugal debt....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ A. 1. Observe: With this chapter commences a NEW SECTION of the Epistle; the topics, and perhaps their order, suggested by a letter of formal inquiry brought from Corinth: vii. Marri...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1 _Answers to the inquiries of the Corinthians respecting marriage._ 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1 _The_ _lawfulness of marriage, and its duties._...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the seventh chapter of I Corinthians. The Corinthian church was a mess. There were just a lot of problems, a problem with carnality. There were divisions in the chur...
1 Peter 3:7; Exodus 21:10...
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....
Observe here, 1. That matrimonial conversation, or the husband's and wife's performing towards each other all the duties of marriage which they promised, is an act of justice, which they owe to one an...