8But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them to be even as I am.
9But if they have not self-control let them get married; for married life is better than the burning of desire.
10But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband
11(Or if she goes away from him, let her keep unmarried, or be united to her husband again); and that the husband may not go away from his wife.
12But to the rest I say, and not the Lord; If a brother has a wife who is not a Christian, and it is her desire to go on living with him, let him not go away from her.
13And if a woman has a husband who is not a Christian, and it is his desire to go on living with her, let her not go away from her husband.
14For the husband who has not faith is made holy through his Christian wife, and the wife who is not a Christian is made holy through the brother: if not, your children would be unholy, but now are they holy.
