1 Corinthians 7:12
ContextNET © | To the rest I say – I, not the Lord 1 – if a brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is happy to live with him, he should not divorce her. |
NIV © | To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. |
NASB © | But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her. |
NLT © | Now, I will speak to the rest of you, though I do not have a direct command from the Lord. If a Christian man has a wife who is an unbeliever and she is willing to continue living with him, he must not leave her. |
MSG © | For the rest of you who are in mixed marriages--Christian married to non-Christian--we have no explicit command from the Master. So this is what you must do. If you are a man with a wife who is not a believer but who still wants to live with you, hold on to her. |
BBE © | But to the rest I say, and not the Lord; If a brother has a wife who is not a Christian, and it is her desire to go on living with him, let him not go away from her. |
NRSV © | To the rest I say—I and not the Lord—that if any believer has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. |
NKJV © | But to the rest I, not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her. |
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NET © | To the rest I say – I, not the Lord 1 – if a brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is happy to live with him, he should not divorce her. |
NET © Notes |
1 sn I, not the Lord. Here and in v. 10 Paul distinguishes between his own apostolic instruction and Jesus’ teaching during his earthly ministry. In vv. 12-16, Paul deals with a situation about which the Lord gave no instruction in his earthly ministry. |