Misinterpretations often reduce the verse to a husband's unilateral right to demand sex from his wife without consent or reciprocity, ignoring the explicit mutual obligation and the surrounding verses on shared authority over bodies; others spiritualize 'due benevolence' as non-sexual affection or kindness, overlooking its clear conjugal connotation, or apply it outside marriage to justify fornication, contrary to the chapter's focus on faithfulness within wedlock.
I Corinthians 7:3
King James Version (1769)
3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
This passage teaches the mutual obligation of spouses in marriage to satisfy each other's sexual needs, emphasizing reciprocity where the husband's body belongs to the wife and vice versa, promoting selflessness, intimacy, and unity as a safeguard against temptation, within the broader context of marital duties in 1 Corinthians 7.