1 Corinthians 7:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ Wife, for all you know, you might save your husband. Husband, for all you know, you might save your wife.

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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?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

1 Corinthians 7:16 Cross References

Proverbs 11:30

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and the wise capture souls.

Luke 15:10

Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

Romans 11:14

in order to make my own people jealous and thus save some of them.

1 Corinthians 9:22

To the weak I became weak, so that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some.

1 Timothy 4:16

Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching; continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers.