1 Corinthians 7:11 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹¹ (but if she does, let her remain single or else be reconciled to her husband)—and that the husband should not divorce his wife.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ but and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ But if she does [separate from and divorce him], let her remain single or else be reconciled to her husband. And [I charge] the husband [also] that he should not put away or divorce his wife.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ (but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.

Common English Bible

¹¹ but if she does leave him, then she should stay single or be reconciled to her husband. And a man shouldn’t divorce his wife.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ But if she has separated from him, she must remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband should not divorce his wife.

1 Corinthians 7:11 Cross References

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the Lord: “Where is your mother's bill of divorce, with which I put her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was put away.

Jeremiah 3:1

“If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the harlot with many lovers; and would you return to me? says the Lord.

Matthew 5:32

But I say to you that every one who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Mark 10:12

and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

Mark 10:2

And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

Luke 16:18

“Every one who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 7:10

To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife should not separate from her husband

1 Corinthians 7:12

To the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.

Deuteronomy 22:19

and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.