1 Corinthians 7:16 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁶ 5 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give counsel, as having obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithful.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ For, wife, how can you be sure of converting and saving your husband? Husband, how can you be sure of converting and saving your wife?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O husband, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

Common English Bible

¹⁶ How do you know as a wife if you will save your husband? Or how do you know as a husband if you will save your wife?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

1 Corinthians 7:16 Cross References

Proverbs 11:30

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood: the mouth of the just shall deliver them.

Luke 15:10

8 I will arise, and will go to my father, and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee:

Romans 11:14

2 See then the goodness and the severity of God: towards them indeed that are fallen, the severity; but towards thee, the goodness of God, if thou abide in goodness, otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

1 Corinthians 9:22

And all drank the same spiritual drink; (and they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.)

1 Timothy 4:16

Let a widow be chosen of no less than threescore years of age, who hath been the wife of one husband.