16For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
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Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; …
If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; …
Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
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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