1 Corinthians 7:11 KJV — MannaFest

1 Corinthians 7:11

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.

YLT

but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

DBT

(but if also she shall have been separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband;) and let not husband leave wife.

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1 Corinthians — A pastoral letter answering a long list of questions and problems — unity, ethics, worship, and the resurrection — written to a gifted but divided church.

Author: Paul, with Sosthenes (1:1)
Date: c. AD 55, from Ephesus

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Mark 10:12
And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
Jeremiah 3:1
They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:10
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
Judges 19:2–3
And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father’s house to Beth–lehem–judah, and was there four whole months.
Isaiah 50:1
Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

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He shows them that becoming Christians does not change their external state; and therefore advises every one to continue, in the general, in that state in which he was called,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

But his meaning is that the Lord himself, with his own mouth, had forbidden such separations, Matt. v. 32; xix. Note, Man and wife cannot separate at pleasure, nor dissolve, when they will, their matrimonial bonds and relation. They must not separate for any other cause than what Christ allows.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

This is the apostle's general direction. We have here the reasons of this advice. (1.) Because the relation or state is sanctified by the holiness of either party: For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife by the husband (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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1CO 7:11JER 3:1 DEU 24:1-4
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
1CO 7:11ISA 50:1 DEU 32:30
1CO 7:111CO 7:10 MAT 5:32
1CO 7:111CO 7:10 LUK 16:18
1CO 7:11ISA 50:1 JER 3:8
1CO 7:111CO 7:10 MAT 19:3-9
1CO 7:111CO 7:10 MAL 2:14-16
1CO 7:11ISA 50:1 MAT 18:25

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