KJV King James Version
But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to [her] husband: and let not the husband put away [his] wife.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
1 Corinthians 7:11
But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to [her] husband: and let not the husband put away [his] wife.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.
WEB World English Bible
(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
ASV American Standard Version
(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.
Surrounding context — 1 Corinthians 7
8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
10 And unto the married I command, [yet] not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from [her] husband:
11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to [her] husband: and let not the husband put away [his] wife.
12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ἐὰνG1437 · eanifδὲG1161 · dethenκαὶG2532 · kaiandχωρισθῇ,G5563 · chōrizōto separate/leaveμενέτωG3306 · menōto stayἄγαμοςG22 · agamosunmarriedἢG2228 · ēorτῷG3588 · hothe/this/whoἀνδρὶG435 · anērmanκαταλλαγήτω·G2644 · katallassōto reconcileκαὶG2532 · kaiandἄνδραG435 · anērmanγυναῖκαG1135 · gunēwomanμὴG3361 · mēnotἀφιέναι.¶G863 · aphiēmito release: leave
Cross-references
Jeremiah 3:1They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.1 Corinthians 7:10And unto the married I command, [yet] not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from [her] husband:Isaiah 50:1Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.Judges 19:2-3And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father’s house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four whole months.Deuteronomy 22:19And they shall amerce him in an hundred [shekels] of silver, and give [them] unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.Mark 10:2And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away [his] wife? tempting him.
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