1 Corinthians 7:12

King James 2000

But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

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

And the woman who has a husband that believes not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

Are you bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

That which I speak, I speak it not according to the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.