1 Corinthians 7:16

How do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

Majority Standard Bible

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 unbeliever leaves, let him go. The believing brother or sister is not bound in such cases. God has called us to live in peace.

17Regardless, each one should lead the life that God has assigned to him and to which the Lord has called him. This is what I prescribe in all the churches.

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Cross References

Luke 15:10In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”

1 Corinthians 9:22To the weak I became like one who is weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.

James 5:19Brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring 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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