1 Corinthians 7:12

But to the rest, I, and not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she is well pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

In Context

11but if she leave him, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and, let not the husband put away his wife.

13And if any woman has a husband that believes not, and he is well pleased to dwell with her, let her not put him away.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:6But this I say by permission, not by commandment:

1 Corinthians 7:27Are you bound to a wife? Seek not a separation. Are you loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 7:11-17

Inviolability of the Marriage Bond. ( a. d. 57.) 10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: 11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife. 12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. 13 And the woman which hath a husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell… Read the whole commentary →

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