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But to the rest I -- not the Lord -- say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.
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"I, Not the Lord"
Commentators clarify that when Paul says "I, not the Lord," he isn't offering mere personal opinion. He is providing divinely inspired apostolic guidance for a new situation—mixed marriages—that Jesus did not directly address during His earthly ministry. This instruction is authoritative for the church.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
But to the rest. "I have spoken in regard to the duties of the unmarried, and the question whether it is right and advisable that they sho…
But to the rest say I, not the Lord (τοις δε λοιποις λεγω εγω, ουχ ο Κυριος). Paul has no word about marriage from Jesus beyond th…
19th Century
Anglican
But to the rest.—Up to this point, the writer has alluded only to Christians; he has spoken of the duties of unmarried persons, of…
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Paul now adds instructions beyond those given by the Lord Jesus— instructions having to do with mixed marriages, where one partner has, since marri…
16th Century
Protestant
To the rest I say, by the rest he means those who are exceptions, so that the law common to others is not applicable to them; for…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But to the rest speak I, not the Lord He had spoken before to married persons in general, and had delivered not his own s…
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Husband and wife must not separate for any reason other than what Christ allows. Divorce, at that time, was very common among both Jews and Gentile…
