1 Corinthians 7:10

To the married Paul gives the Lord's own command that a wife not separate from her husband. It matters because the permanence of marriage rests on Christ's clear teaching.

Cross-references · 11

• Matt 5:32but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.
• Luke 16:18Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
• Matt 19:3–9Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
• Mal 2:14–16Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
• Mark 10:11–12He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.
• 1 Cor 7:15Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
• Jer 3:20“Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says Yahweh.
• 1 Cor 7:12But to the rest I — not the Lord — say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.
• 1 Cor 7:6But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
• 1 Cor 7:25Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.
• 1 Cor 7:40But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.

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