1 Corinthians 7:16

How can you tell, wife, whether you may not save your husband? And how can you tell, husband, whether you may not save your wife?

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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

15However, if the unbeliever wishes to be separated, let them be so. Under such circumstances neither is bound; God has called you to live in peace.

17In any case, a person should continue to live in the condition which the Lord has allotted to them, and in which they were when God called them. This is the rule that I lay down in every church.

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Cross References

Luke 15:10So, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of God’s angels over one outcast who repents.”

1 Corinthians 9:22To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so as at all costs to save some.

James 5:19My friends, should one of you be led astray from the truth, and someone bring them back again,

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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