Having just taught and reminded the Corinthian holy-people (sanctified-people, Christians, saints, children of the only true God) that their body is the interior-temple of the holy spirit in them which they have received from God, and they do not belong to themselves because they were bought of price, and that indeed they must glorify God in their body, Paul continues:
I Corinthians 7:1 and 2:
7:1But concerning which-things you wrote: (it is) beautiful for a man not to touch a woman, .2but because-of fornications each (adult-male) must have the wife of himself, and each (woman) must have (her) own husband.
Now Paul is replying to some topics concerning which these Corinthian holy-people had written to him, which includes how man, woman, husband, wife, girlfriend (fiancée), boyfriend (fiancé), ought to behave themselves during the everyday living of their lives. We do not have their letter or letters to Paul, but thankfully to God we have his reply to them here. Also, we need to recognize that during this time many people were hearing the good-message and becoming holy-people, therefore there were many families where one or more members had become Christians but others within that same family had not yet become holy-people, or perhaps they refused to believe what God has given to be believed and thus refused to receive God's gift of holy spirit.
Paul writes: it is beautiful (there is a manifested decorous, harmonious and acceptable goodness) for a man not to touch a woman (in the sense of not applying himself to a woman and thus experiencing her) - referring to those men who have decided that they do not need to have sexual relations with a woman as they live their everyday lives and therefore intend to remain unmarried. There is nothing wrong with being "single"!
But for those holy-people (male and female) who would like to have sexual relations, then each adult-male (grown-man - translated "husband" depending on the context) must have the wife (woman - translated "wife" depending on the context) who belongs to him, and each woman must have her own husband. Why? On account of fornications - so as not to allow the possibility of the man or the woman partaking in wrongful sexual activities or relations.
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