1 Corinthians 7:12
Good News Translation
To the others I say (I, myself, not the Lord): if a Christian man has a wife who is an unbeliever and she agrees to go on living with him, he must not divorce her.

New Revised Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
I don't know of anything else the Lord said about marriage. All I can do is to give you my own advice. If your wife isn't a follower of the Lord, but is willing to stay with you, don't divorce her.

New American Bible
To the rest I say (not the Lord): if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she is willing to go on living with him, he should not divorce her;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For to the rest I speak, not the Lord. If any brother hath a wife that believeth not and she consent to dwell with him: let him not put her away.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For to the rest I speak, not the Lord. If any brother hath a wife that believeth not and she consent to dwell with him: let him not put her away.

speak.

1 Corinthians 7:6,25 But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment. . . .

2 Corinthians 11:17 That which I speak, I speak not according to God: but as it were in foolishness, in this matter of glorying.

If.

Ezra 10:2,3,11-19 And Sechenias the son of Jehiel of the sons of Elam answered, and said to Esdras: We have sinned against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: and now if there be repentance in Israel concerning this, . . .

Context
Principles of Marriage
11And if she depart, that she remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And let not the husband put away his wife. 12For to the rest I speak, not the Lord. If any brother hath a wife that believeth not and she consent to dwell with him: let him not put her away. 13And if any woman hath a husband that believeth not and he consent to dwell with her: let her not put away her husband.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:6
But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment.

1 Corinthians 7:11
And if she depart, that she remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And let not the husband put away his wife.

1 Corinthians 7:13
And if any woman hath a husband that believeth not and he consent to dwell with her: let her not put away her husband.

2 Corinthians 11:17
That which I speak, I speak not according to God: but as it were in foolishness, in this matter of glorying.

1 Corinthians 7:11
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