1 Corinthians 7:10
To those who are married my direction is – yet it is not mine, but the Master’s – that a woman is not to leave her husband
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In The King James Version
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
In Context
Cross References
Malachi 2:14Yet you ask, “Why?” Because the Lord is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young. You have been unfaithful to her, even though she is your companion, and your legal wife.
Matthew 19:3Presently some Pharisees came up to him, and, to test him, said, “Has a man the right to divorce his wife for every cause?”
Luke 16:18Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman is an adulterer, and the man who marries a divorced woman is an adulterer.
1 Corinthians 7:12To all others I say – I, not the Master – If a follower of the Lord is married to a woman, who is an unbeliever but willing to live with him, he should not divorce her;
1 Corinthians 7:25With regard to unmarried women, I have no command from the Master to give you, but I tell you my opinion, and the Master in his mercy has made me worthy to be trusted.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 7:2-10
Against Fornication. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. 5 Defraud ye not one the other, except… Read the whole commentary →