Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Corinthians 7:15
A brother or a sister — A Christian man or woman. Is not enslaved — is at full liberty. In such cases: but God hath called us to peace — To live peaceably with them, if it be possible.
A brother or a sister — A Christian man or woman. Is not enslaved — is at full liberty. In such cases: but God hath called us to peace — To live peaceably with them, if it be possible.
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Verse 1 Corinthians 7:15. _BUT IF THE UNBELIEVING, DEPART_] Whether husband or wife: if such _obstinately_ depart and utterly refuse all cohabitation, _a brother or a sister_-a Christian man or woman...
BUT IF THE UNBELIEVING DEPART - If they choose to leave you. LET HIM DEPART - You cannot prevent it, and you are to submit to it patiently, and bear it as a Christian. A BROTHER OR A SISTER IS NOT UN...
4. CONCERNING THE RELATIONSHIP OF MAN AND WOMAN CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Single and the Married Life. (1 Corinthians 7:1)._ 2. Separation and Divorce. (1 Corinthians 7:10). 3. Abiding in the Different Ca...
He now passes on to special classes. First, those who are unmarried or have lost their partners. It would be best for them to follow Paul's example and remain as they are. But if they have not the gif...
To the unmarried and to the widows I say, it would be a fine thing if they were to remain like myself, but if they find continence impossible, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to go on b...
COMPLETE ASCETICISM (1 Corinthians 7:1-2)...
IS NOT UNDER BONDAGE. has not been enslaved (App-190.) IN. App-104. TO. in, as above. Peace is the atmosphere of the Christian calling, and should decide all the problems of life. Compare 1 Corinthia...
_A brother or a sister is not under bondage_(literally, ENSLAVED) _in such cases_ The Roman Catholic divines, e.g. à Lapide and Ambrosiaster, as well as the Canon law, held that in the case of the hea...
Mutual obligations of Married Persons 10. _yet not I, but the Lord_ The Apostle is quoting our Lord's words in St Mark 10:11-12. No distinction is intended between what he, as a private individual en...
ΟΥ̓ ΔΕΔΟΎΛΩΤΑΙ. Literally, IS NOT ENSLAVED. The Roman Catholic divines, e.g. à Lapide and Ambrosiaster, as well as the Canon law, held that in the case of the heathen partner divorcing the other when...
MUTUAL OBLIGATIONS OF MARRIED PERSONS...
_CONCERNING BEHAVIOR FOR THE MARRIED 1 CORINTHIANS 7:10-16:_ Paul instructed people to stay married. He said, "Let not the wife depart from her husband." (1 Corinthians 7:10) Christians may have probl...
ΕΊ ΔΈ но если. Частица вводит уеловие, которое считается истинным, ΧΩΡΊΖΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. pass. от_ ΧΩΡΊΖΩ (G5563) разделять (_см._ 1 Corinthians 7:10). В папирусах это слово используется как термин...
IS NOT UNDER BONDAGE, &C.— That is, says _Hilary,_ "The Christian in this case is free to marry to another Christian." "He is free," says _Photius,_ "to depart, because the other has dissolved the mar...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Directions for the Married_ (10-24) _Commentary_ Unto the married, I give charge.Paul, speaking as an apostle of Christ, gives direction to those who are already married. It is...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 The Permanence of Marriage (1 Corinthians 7:10-16) 10 To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife should not separate from her husband 11(but if she...
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. IF THE UNBELIEVING DEPART, LET HIM DEPART. Translate, 'sep...
8 It is evident that the preceding concession is only a general rule, not applicable to those not then married. Their relations are to be regulated by mutual consideration, but the unmarried need to c...
7:15 them (f-8) Lit. 'him.' see Note, ver. 28....
_(A) ANSWER TO QUESTIONS ABOUT MARRIAGE_ The Corinthians had in their letter (1 Corinthians 7:1) asked St. Paul's opinion on several points connectedwithmarriage. His language in reply is guarded; he...
A BROTHER OR A SISTER] the Christian partner. NOT UNDER BONDAGE] i.e. is not bound to continue with the other. 15, 16. GOD HATH CALLED US TO (RV 'in') PEACE.. SAVE _thy_ WIFE] 1 Corinthians 7:16 eithe...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 7 ADVICE ABOUT WHETHER TO MARRY 7:1-2 V1 But now I will deal with the matters that you wrote about. It is good for a man not to marry. V2...
BUT IF THE UNBELIEVING DEPART. — Supposing, however, the desire for separation arises from the unbelieving partner, how is the Christian partner to act? If the married life, for example, be made intol...
CHAPTER 11 MARRIAGE THERE are two preliminary considerations which throw some light on this much-contested passage. First, Paul had to speak about marriage as he found it, as it existed among those t...
§ 21. PROHIBITION OF DIVORCE. Pagan sentiment and law, while condoning fornication, were exceedingly lax in permitting _divorce_ (see Hermann-Stark, _Griech. Privat-alterthümer_, §§ 30. 15, 17), as Je...
_a_. The Christian wife or husband is not to _seek_ divorce from the non-Christian (1 Corinthians 7:12-14); but if the latter insists on separation, it is not to be refused: “But if the unbeliever sep...
SERVE GOD IN YOUR CALLING 1 Corinthians 7:15 There was much unsettlement in regard to marriage in the church at Corinth. An unnatural asceticism was showing itself in some quarters and a lawless self...
Certain difficulties had arisen in the Corinthian Church concerning which they had sent inquiries to Paul. He now answers their questions. These answers contain principles of permanent application. Th...
Should Married Christians Separate? The second question would seem to be, "Should a Christian, who is joined to Christ, separate from the union of marriage?" Jesus had answered this question (Matthew...
(10) But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in (m) such [cases]: (11) but God hath called us to peace. (10) He answers a question: what if the unfai...
Is sanctified. The meaning is not that the faith of the husband, or the wife is of itself sufficient to put the unbelieving party, or their children, in the state of grace and salvation: but that it i...
For to the rest, &c. This was a case entirely new, which the wisdom of the apostle regulates according to the laws of charity. Tertullian thinks that some of the faithful, who had been converted from...
“But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such things; but God hath called us in peace. 16. For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save t...
The rules to be followed in the case of two Christian spouses (1 Corinthians 7:10-11)....
Notwithstanding the intrinsic excellence of celibacy, marriage should be the rule in practice. Such is the general meaning of this first passage....
(4) The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. (5) Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent fo...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
15._But if an unbeliever depart. _This is the second department of his statement, in which he sets at liberty a believing husband, who is prepared to dwell with an unbelieving wife, but is rejected by...
The apostle proceeds by answering a question in connection with the subject he had been treating the will of God with regard to the relationship between man and woman. They do well who remain outside...
BUT IF THE UNBELIEVING DEPART,.... If the unbelieving party, man or woman, separate themselves from the believing party on account of religion, and in hatred to it, and will not live with the believer...
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. Ver. 15. _But God hath called us to peace_] To domestic pe...
_But if the unbelieving_ party _depart, let him_, or her _depart_ And take the course they think best. _A brother or sister_ A Christian man or woman; _is not under bondage_ Is at full liberty; _in su...
Concerning mixed marriages:...
Those things in Chapter s 5 and 6, which were of such serious importance as demanding correction, had evidently not even been questions in the minds of the Corinthians. But Paul was required to raise...
TO PEACE: _ Gr._ in peace...
YET IF THE UNBELIEVING DEPARTETH, LET HIM DEPART: THE BROTHER OR THE SISTER IS NOT UNDER BONDAGE IN SUCH CASES: BUT GOD HATH CALLED US IN PEACE. 'departeth' -'determined to separate' (Wey), i.e. want...
10-16 Man and wife must not separate for any other cause than what Christ allows. Divorce, at that time, was very common among both Jews and Gentiles, on very slight pretexts. Marriage is a Divine in...
If the unbelieving husband or the unbelieving wife will leave his or her correlate, that is, so leave them as to return no more to live as a husband or as a wife with her or him that is Christian, LET...
Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us in peace....
Tertullian To His Wife Book II by the believer."[13]...
1 Corinthians 7:15 But G1161 if G1487 unbeliever G571 departs G5563 (G5731) depart G5563 (G5744) brother G80
INSTRUCTIONS WHERE ONE PARTNER IS A NON-CHRISTIAN(7:12-16). But another question they had seemingly asked had in mind cases where one partner had been converted and had become a Christian. It does not...
‘Yet if the unbelieving one separate themselves, let them depart. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases.' Where the unbelieving partner seeks a divorce, or walks out because the...
‘But God has called us in peace.' When God called us it was essentially in the sphere of peace, peace with God and peace from God. God does not seek to bring His people into a position of antagonism a...
_Duties of the Married where One of the Parties is unconverted,_ 12-17. 1 Corinthians 7:12. BUT TO THE REST SAY I, NOT THE LORD: IF ANY BROTHER HATH AN UNBELIEVING WIFE, AND SHE IS CONTENT TO DWELL W...
IS NOT UNDER BONDAGE (ου δεδουλωτα). Perfect passive indicative of δουλοω, to enslave, has been enslaved, does not remain a slave. The believing husband or wife is not at liberty to separate, unless...
CONTENTS: Sanctity of marriage. Regulation of marriage among Gentile believers. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: Marriage is by divine wisdom prescribed for the preventing of f...
It is evident from the tenor of this chapter that the Corinthians had written to the apostle for advice on the subject of marriage and its obligations, and that he is here resolving their various diff...
HOWEVER. This is the "Pauline privilege." Note that it only covers the specific condition of an _unbeliever_ deserting the Christian partner. There was and is much controversy about Christianity (comp...
_Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman._ MARRIAGE I. Is not necessary for all (1 Corinthians 7:1). 1. Instituted by God, sanctified by Christ,...
_And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband._ THE MARRIAGE UNION: HOW DISTURBANCES OF IT ARE TO BE ALLEVIATED I. If both parties are believers-...
_For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife._ THE SANCTIFICATION OF AN UNBELIEVING PARTNER The Christian wife lays her heathen husband upon the altar of God; and in all her intercourse wit...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 7:15 LET IT BE SO. Paul advises the Christian spouse not to create strife by trying to bring about reconciliation with an unbelieving spouse who has left the marria...
CHAPTER 7 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER In this chapter he answers five questions of the Corinthians about the laws of matrimony, and about the counsel of virginity and celibacy i. The first question is...
_But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart._ If the unbeliever seek for a dissolution of the marriage, or will not live with his partner without doing injury to God, by endeavouring to draw her wa...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ A. 1. Observe: With this chapter commences a NEW SECTION of the Epistle; the topics, and perhaps their order, suggested by a letter of formal inquiry brought from Corinth: vii. Marri...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1 _Answers to the inquiries of the Corinthians respecting marriage._ 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1 _The_ _lawfulness of marriage, and its duties._...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the seventh chapter of I Corinthians. The Corinthian church was a mess. There were just a lot of problems, a problem with carnality. There were divisions in the chur...
1 Corinthians 14:33; 2 Corinthians 13:11; Galatians 5:22; Hebrews 12:14;...
Is not under bondage [ο υ δ ε δ ο υ λ ω τ α ι]. A strong word, indicating that Christianity has not made marriage a state of slavery to believers. Compare dedetai is bound, ver. 39, a milder word. The...
Does Paul contradict what Jesus said about divorce? PROBLEM: This passage from 1 Corinthians talks about a Christian who has an unbelieving mate. At one point, Paul says, “But if the unbeliever depart...
Here another doubt is resolved by the apostle, in case the unbelieving party, either husband or wife, depart, that is, refuse to cohabit and dwell with their believing yoke-fellow, and so make void, a...