1 Corinthians 7:16

For how do you know, O wife, but that you may save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, but that you may save your wife?

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

In Context

15But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart; the brother or sister is not bound in such cases. But God has called us to live in peace.

17But as God has assigned a place to every one, as the Lord has called every one, so let him continue to live: and so do I command in all the churches.

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Cross References

Luke 15:10So, I say to you, There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents.

1 Corinthians 9:22to the weak I became like one who was weak, that I might gain the weak: I have become all things to all men, that I may, by all means, save some.

James 5:19Brethren, if any among you should err from the truth, and one should turn him back,

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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