1 Corinthians 7:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And to the rest I speak -- not the Lord -- if any brother hath a wife unbelieving, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not send her away;

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  • 2 Cor 11:17 : 17 That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting;
  • 1 Cor 7:6 : 6 and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,
  • 1 Cor 7:25 : 25 And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful:
  • Ezra 10:2-3 : 2 And Shechaniah son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answereth and saith to Ezra, `We -- we have trespassed against our God, and we settle strange women of the peoples of the land; and now there is hope for Israel concerning this, 3 and now, let us make a covenant with our God, to cause all the women to go out, and that which is born of them, by the counsel of the Lord, and of those trembling at the command of our God, and according to law it is done;
  • Ezra 10:11-19 : 11 and, now, make confession to Jehovah, God of your fathers, and do His good pleasure, and be separated from the peoples of the land, and from the strange women.' 12 And all the assembly answer and say `with' a great voice, `Right; according to thy word -- on us to do; 13 but the people `are' many, and `it is' the time of showers, and there is no power to stand without, and the work `is' not for one day, nor for two, for we have multiplied to transgress in this thing. 14 `Let, we pray thee, our heads of all the assembly stand, and all who `are' in our cities, who have settled strange wives, do come in at the times appointed, and with them the elders of city and city, and its judges, till the turning back of the fury of the wrath of our God from us, for this thing.' 15 Only Jonathan son of Asahel, and Jahaziah son of Tikvah, stood against this, and Meshullam, and Shabbethai the Levite, helped them. 16 And the sons of the removal do so, and Ezra the priest, `and' men, heads of the fathers, for the house of their fathers, are separated, even all of them by name, and they sit on the first day of the tenth month, to examine the matter; 17 and they finish with all the men who have settled strange women unto the first day of the first month. 18 And there are found of the sons of the priests that have settled strange women: of the sons of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah; 19 and they give their hand to send out their wives, and, being guilty, a ram of the flock, for their guilt.

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  • 1 Cor 7:13-17
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    13 and a woman who hath a husband unbelieving, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not send him away;

    14 for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

    15 And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself -- let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such `cases', and in peace hath God called us;

    16 for what, hast thou known, O wife, whether the husband thou shalt save? or what, hast thou known, O husband, whether the wife thou shalt save?

    17 if not, as God did distribute to each, as the Lord hath called each -- so let him walk; and thus in all the assemblies do I direct:

  • 1 Cor 7:1-11
    11 verses
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    1 And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good `it is' for a man not to touch a woman,

    2 and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

    3 to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

    4 the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

    5 Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

    6 and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,

    7 for I wish all men to be even as I myself `am'; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.

    8 And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I `am';

    9 and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

    10 and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband:

    11 but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:24-29
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    24 each, in that in which he was called, brethren, in this let him remain with God.

    25 And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful:

    26 I suppose, therefore, this to be good because of the present necessity, that `it is' good for a man that the matter be thus: --

    27 Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

    28 But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

    29 And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened -- that both those having wives may be as not having;

  • 1 Cor 7:32-40
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    32 And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;

    33 and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

    34 The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

    35 And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,

    36 and if any one doth think `it' to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin -- let him marry.

    37 And he who hath stood stedfast in the heart -- not having necessity -- and hath authority over his own will, and this he hath determined in his heart -- to keep his own virgin -- doth well;

    38 so that both he who is giving in marriage doth well, and he who is not giving in marriage doth better.

    39 A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will -- only in the Lord;

    40 and she is happier if she may so remain -- according to my judgment; and I think I also have the Spirit of God.

  • Rom 7:2-3
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    73%

    2 for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

    3 so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

  • Matt 19:9-10
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    9 `And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

    10 His disciples say to him, `If the case of the man with the woman is so, it is not good to marry.'

  • Matt 22:25
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    25 `And there were with us seven brothers, and the first having married did die, and not having seed, he left his wife to his brother;

  • Mark 10:11-12
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    11 and he saith to them, `Whoever may put away his wife, and may marry another, doth commit adultery against her;

    12 and if a woman may put away her husband, and is married to another, she committeth adultery.'

  • 2 Cor 6:14-15
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    14 Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking `is there' to righteousness and lawlessness?

    15 and what fellowship to light with darkness? and what concord to Christ with Belial? or what part to a believer with an unbeliever?

  • Deut 25:7
    69%

    7 `And if the man doth not delight to take his brother's wife, then hath his brother's wife gone up to the gate, unto the elders, and said, My husband's brother is refusing to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he hath not been willing to perform the duty of my husband's brother;

  • Mark 10:7
    68%

    7 on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,

  • 1 Cor 9:5
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    5 have we not authority a sister -- a wife -- to lead about, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

  • 1 Tim 5:16
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    16 If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.

  • 1 Pet 3:1
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    1 In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

  • Num 30:11
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    11 and her husband hath heard, and hath kept silent at her -- he hath not disallowed her -- then have all her vows been established, and every bond which she hath bound on her soul is established.

  • Mark 12:20
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    20 `There were then seven brothers, and the first took a wife, and dying, he left no seed;

  • Deut 24:1-2
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    1 `When a man doth take a wife, and hath married her, and it hath been, if she doth not find grace in his eyes (for he hath found in her nakedness of anything), and he hath written for her a writing of divorce, and given `it' into her hand, and sent her out of his house,

    2 and she hath gone out of his house, and hath gone and been another man's,

  • Eph 5:32
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    32 this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;