1 Corinthians 7:10

Bible in Basic English 1965

But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband

Cross References

Jeremiah 3:20

Truly, as a wife is false to her husband, so have you been false to me, O Israel, says the Lord.

Matthew 5:32

But I say to you that everyone who puts away his wife for any other cause but the loss of her virtue, makes her false to her husband; and whoever takes her as his wife after she is put away, is no true husband to her.

Mark 10:2

And Pharisees came to him, testing him with the question, Is it right for a man to put away his wife?

Luke 16:18

Everyone who puts away his wife and takes another, is a false husband: and he who is married to a woman whose husband has put her away, is no true husband to her.

1 Corinthians 7:11

Or if she goes away from him, let her keep unmarried, or be united to her husband again; and that the husband may not go away from his wife.

1 Corinthians 7:12

But to the rest I say, and not the Lord; If a brother has a wife who is not a Christian, and it is her desire to go on living with him, let him not go away from her.

1 Corinthians 7:15

But if the one who is not a Christian has a desire to go away, let it be so: the brother or the sister in such a position is not forced to do one thing or the other: but it is God's pleasure that we may be at peace with one another.

1 Corinthians 7:25

Now about virgins I have no orders from the Lord: but I give my opinion as one to whom the Lord has given mercy to be true to him.

1 Corinthians 7:40

But it will be better for her to keep as she is, in my opinion: and it seems to me that I have the Spirit of God.

1 Corinthians 7:6

But this I say as my opinion, and not as an order of the Lord.