Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
A paradox. She hath not power over her body, and yet it is her own. The oneness of body in which marriage places husband and wife explains this. The one complements the other. Neither without the other realizes the perfect ideal of man.
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 I Corinthians 7:4).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Corinthians 7:4:
1 Corinthians 6:12
1 Corinthians 7:3-4
1 Corinthians 7:6
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