1Cor 7, 1-3 Every man should have his own wife

1Corinthians 7

(1Cor 7, 1-3) Every man should have his own wife

[1] Now in regard to the matters about which you wrote: "It is a good thing for a man not to touch a woman," [2] but because of cases of immorality every man should have his own wife, and every woman her own husband. [3] The husband should fulfill his duty toward his wife, and likewise the wife toward her husband.

(CCC 1601) "The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament" (CIC, can. 1055 § 1; cf. GS 48 § 1). (CCC 1602) Sacred Scripture begins with the creation of man and woman in the image and likeness of God and concludes with a vision of "the wedding-feast of the Lamb" (Rev 19:7, 9; cf. Gen 1:26-27). Scripture speaks throughout of marriage and its "mystery," its institution and the meaning God has given it, its origin and its end, its various realizations throughout the history of salvation, the difficulties arising from sin and its renewal "in the Lord" in the New Covenant of Christ and the Church (1 Cor 7:39; cf. Eph 5:31-32).