1 Corinthians 7:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

1 Corinthians 7:13 —

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-16)

In this paragraph the apostle gives them direction in a case which must be very frequent in that age of the world, especially among the Jewish converts; I mean whether they were to live with heathen relatives in a married state. Moses’s law permitted divorce; and there was a famous instance in the Jewish state, when the people were obliged to put away their idolatrous wives, Ezra 10:3. This might…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. the woman--a believer. let her not leave him--“her husband,” instead of “him,” is the reading of the oldest manuscripts The Greek for “leave” is the same as in 1Co 7:12, “put away”; translate, “Let her not put away [that is, part with] her husband.” The wife had the power of effecting a divorce by Greek and Roman law.