| Geneva Study Bible {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 one another. (c) The word due contains all types of benevolence, though he speaks more of one sort than of the other, in that which follows. People's New Testament 7:3 Let the husband render unto the wife, etc. Marriage is a state of mutual obligations. Each must yield to the other what those obligations require. Wesley's Notes 7:3 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. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 3, 4. The duty of cohabitation on the part of the married. due benevolence-The oldest manuscripts read simply, "her due"; that is, the conjugal cohabitation due by the marriage contract (compare 1Co 7:4). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 7:1-9 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 Divine wisdom. Though none may break the law of God, yet that perfect rule leaves men at liberty to serve him in the way most suited to their powers and circumstances, of which others often are very unfit judges. All must determine for themselves, seeking counsel from God how they ought to act. | 
