To the rest I say – I, not the Lord – if a brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is happy to live with him, he should not divorce her.
(but if she does, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband), and a husband should not divorce his wife.
And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is happy to live with her, she should not divorce him.
With regard to the question about people who have never married, I have no command from the Lord, but I give my opinion as one shown mercy by the Lord to be trustworthy.
The one bound to a wife should not seek divorce. The one released from a wife should not seek marriage.
I say this as a concession, not as a command.
What I am saying with this boastful confidence I do not say the way the Lord would. Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.