KJV King James Version
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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1 Corinthians 7:14
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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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
WEB World English Bible
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
ASV American Standard Version
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.
Surrounding context — 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.
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.
15 But 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.
16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save [thy] husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save [thy] wife?
17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ἡγίασταιG37 · hagiazōto sanctifyγὰρG1063 · garforὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoἀνὴρG435 · anērmanὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoἄπιστοςG571 · apistosunbelievingἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongτῇG3588 · hothe/this/whoγυναικί,G1135 · gunēwomanκαὶG2532 · kaiandἡγίασταιG37 · hagiazōto sanctifyἡG3588 · hothe/this/whoγυνὴG1135 · gunēwomanἡG3588 · hothe/this/whoἄπιστοςG571 · apistosunbelievingἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongτῷG3588 · hothe/this/whoἀδελφῷ·G80 · adelphosbrotherἐπεὶG1893 · epeisinceἄραG686 · arathereforeτὰG3588 · hothe/this/whoτέκναG5043 · teknonchildὑμῶνG4771 · suyouἀκάθαρτάG169 · akathartosuncleanἐστιν,G1510 · eimito beνῦνG3568 · nunnowδὲG1161 · dethenἅγιάG40 · hagiosholyἐστιν.G1510 · eimito be
Cross-references
Malachi 2:15-16And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.1 Timothy 4:5For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.Titus 1:15Unto the pure all things [are] pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving [is] nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.Isaiah 52:1Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.Romans 11:16For if the firstfruit [be] holy, the lump [is] also [holy]: and if the root [be] holy, so [are] the branches.Ezra 9:1-2Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, [doing] according to their abominations, [even] of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.1 Corinthians 6:15-17Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make [them] the members of an harlot? God forbid.Acts 10:23Then called he them in, and lodged [them]. And on the morrow Peter went away with them, and certain brethren from Joppa accompanied him.
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