15But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
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Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. …
Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
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…
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