1 Corinthians 7:16

For what do you know, O wife, if you shall save your husband? And what do you know, O husband, if you shall save your wife?

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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 departs, let him or her depart; the brother or the sister has not been enslaved in such things. God has called you in peace.

17If not as the Lord has imparted to each one, and as God has called each one, so let him or her walk. And thus I command in all the churches.

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Cross References

Luke 15:10So, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.

1 Corinthians 9:22To the weak I became as weak, that I may gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I may indeed save some.

James 5:19My brethren, if any one among you may err from the truth, and one may 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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