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.
v. 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.
1 CORINTHIANS 7:14 gunaiki, After gunaiki, several witnesses, chiefly Western (D F G vg syrp), add the interpretative gloss th|/ pisth|/ (compare also the addition tw|/ pistw|/ in the following comm...
Verse 1 Corinthians 7:14. _THE UNBELIEVING HUSBAND IS SANCTIFIED BY THE WIFE_] Or rather, is to be _reputed_ as sanctified on account of his wife; she being a _Christian_ woman, and he, though a _hea...
FOR THE UNBELIEVING HUSBAND - The husband that is not a Christian; who still remains a pagan, or an impenitent man. The apostle here states reasons why a separation should not take place when there wa...
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)...
SANCTIFIED. Greek. _hagiazo._ See John 17:17; John 17:19. BY. in. App-104. HUSBAND. All the texts read "brother", i.e. believer, or Christian brother. ELSE. since otherwise. CHILDREN. App-108. UNC...
_is sanctified_ In both members of the sentence the original has _hath been sanctified_, i.e. by the conversion of the believer to Christianity. The sacred character imparted by Christianity has, sinc...
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...
ἈΔΕΛΦΩ͂Ι. אABCDEFG, Vetus Lat. ἀνδρί rec. with Peshito and Vulg. Irenaeus however (Lat. vers.) and Tertullian support the rec. They may, however, have been quoting loosely. The word ἀνδρί would natura...
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...
ΉΓΊΑΣΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΆΓΙΆΖΩ (G37) отделять, освящать, выделять для службы Богу, посвящать. Он был выделен для службы Богу как страж, охраняющий Его избранных (Hodge). Пока поддерживается бра...
IS SANCTIFIED— The words _sanctified, holy,_ and _unclean,_ are used here by the Apostle in the Jewish sense. The Jews called all that were Jews _holy,_ and all others _unclean._ Thus _proles genita e...
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...
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...
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. SANCTIFIED. Those connected wit...
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...
_(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...
IS SANCTIFIED] i.e. brought into the Christian sphere, under Christian influences. NOW ARE THEY HOLY] i.e. regarded as Christian children; as are still more evidently the children of two Christian par...
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...
THE UNBELIEVING HUSBAND IS SANCTIFIED BY THE WIFE. — Any scruple which a Christian might have felt as to whether matrimonial union with an unbeliever would be defiling is here removed, and the purity...
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...
obviates the objection which the Christian wife or husband (for the _order_, see note on 10 f.) might feel to continued union with an unbeliever (_cf._ Paul's own warning in 2 Corinthians 6:14 ff.): “...
MARRIAGE BONDS 1 Corinthians 7:1 The Apostle first addresses the unmarried, 1 Corinthians 7:1, _etc_. He speaks elsewhere reverently of marriage, Ephesians 5:23. Forbidding to marry is in his j
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...
(9) For the unbelieving husband is (h) sanctified by the (i) wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the (k) husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they (l) holy. (9) He answers...
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...
Notwithstanding the intrinsic excellence of celibacy, marriage should be the rule in practice. Such is the general meaning of this first passage....
The rules to be followed in the case of two Christian spouses (1 Corinthians 7:10-11)....
“For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother; since otherwise were your children unclean; but now are they holy.” The essential idea is...
(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...
14._For the unbelieving husband is sanctified _He obviates an objection, which might occasion anxiety to believers. The relationship of marriage is singularly close, so that the wife is the half of th...
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...
FOR THE UNBELIEVING HUSBAND IS SANCTIFIED BY THE WIFE,.... That is, "by the believing wife"; as the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions read, and so it is read in some copies; and likewise in the next c...
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. Ver. 14. _But now they are holy_]...
_For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife_ That is, so far that their matrimonial converse is as lawful, holy, and honourable, as if they were both of the same faith: and in many instance...
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...
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. 'sanctified' -first of all, we a...
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...
Ver. 13,14. Sanctifying, in holy writ, generally signifieth the separation or setting apart of a person or thing from a common, to and for a holy use, whether it be by some external rites and ceremoni...
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife [The word "sanctified" is here used in the Jewish sense of being not unclean, and therefore not to be touched], _and the unbelieving wife is sanct...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV And for this reason, Paul declares that the "unbelieving wife is sanctified by the believing husband."[311] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Nam quaham rati...
1 Corinthians 7:14 For G1063 unbelieving G571 husband G435 sanctified G37 (G5769) by G1722 wife G1135 and G2532
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...
‘But as to the rest, I speak, not the Lord. If any brother has an unbelieving wife and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her. And the woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is...
_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 SANCTIFIED IN THE WIFE (ηγιαστα εν τη γυναικ). Perfect passive indicative of αγιαζω, to set apart, to hallow, to sanctify. Paul does not, of course, mean that the unbelieving husband is saved by...
CHILDREN (Greek, "teknon", a "child", "born one")....
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...
IS MADE ACCEPTABLE. MacKnight says this should be understood in a Jewish sense - things clean and unclean (as Acts 10:14-15). Paul is not talking about salvation here. Remember the false teacher at Co...
_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...
_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-...
_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,...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 7:14 MADE HOLY... ARE HOLY. These are the same terms used earlier for God’s separation of Corinthian Christians from their pagan environment as his special people ...
_For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife._ Such union by marriage is holy. The believer, therefore, is not, as you so scrupulously fear, defiled by contact with an unbeliever, but rather...
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...
_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 6:15; 1 Timothy 4:5; Acts 10:23; Ezra 9:1; Ezra 9:2;...
Is sanctified [η γ ι α σ τ α ι]. Not, made morally holy, but affiliated to the Christian community - the family of the agioi saints - in virtue of his being "one flesh" with his Christian wife....
For the unbelieving husband hath, in many instances, been sanctified by the wife — Else your children would have been brought up heathens; whereas now they are Christians. As if he had said, Ye see th...
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...