9. and if they have not continence--let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;
10. and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband:
11. but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.
12. And to the rest I speak--not the Lord--if any brother hath a wife unbelieving, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not send her away;
13. and a woman who hath a husband unbelieving, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not send him away;
14. 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.
15. And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself--let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such [cases], and in peace hath God called us;
16. for what, hast thou known, O wife, whether the husband thou shalt save? or what, hast thou known, O husband, whether the wife thou shalt save?
17. if not, as God did distribute to each, as the Lord hath called each--so let him walk; and thus in all the assemblies do I direct:
18. being circumcised--was any one called? let him not become uncircumcised; in uncircumcision was any one called? let him not be circumcised;
19. the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing--but a keeping of the commands of God.
20. Each in the calling in which he was called--in this let him remain;
21. a servant--wast thou called? be not anxious; but if also thou art able to become free--use [it] rather;
22. for he who [is] in the Lord--having been called a servant--is the Lord's freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant of Christ:
23. with a price ye were bought, become not servants of men;