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
Twentieth Century New Testament
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
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 16:18Every one 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 Brother 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 it is that of a man whom the Master in his mercy has made 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 →