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.
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.
And if a woman has a husband who is not a Christian, and it is his desire to go on living with her, let her not go away from her husband.
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.
If you are married to a wife, make no attempt to get free from her: if you are free from a wife, do not take a wife.
But this I say as my opinion, and not as an order of the Lord.
What I am now saying is not by the order of the Lord, but as a foolish person, taking credit to myself, as it seems.