Commentaries:
No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for 1 Corinthians 7:2.
I Corinthians 7:1-4
Excerpted from: Passover and I Corinthians 10Physically, you do not belong to yourself exclusively either! If you are single, you belong to the one you are going to marry. And, even though you may not know that person, they have authority over your body. It is of such seriousness (if you want to check it in Deuteronomy 22) it can lead to the defrauding of that person. All that is wrong with sex in this case is the timing. It has to wait until it is within the marriage bonds.
In verse 4, where it says "authority"—another translation would be "you have rights over the other person." Paul says we are responsible to pay them what is due. The conclusion is that neither person—man or woman—has the right to use his body completely as he chooses because of the responsibility to the other person, married or unmarried. Even though unmarried, and you may not have met that person, that person that you might marry has a vested interest in your body. It is a defrauding of that person because you are not using it in the right way.
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