1 Corinthians 7:11
Good News Translation
but if she does, she must remain single or else be reconciled to her husband; and a husband must not divorce his wife.

New Revised Standard Version
(but if she does separate, let her remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not divorce his wife.

Contemporary English Version
should either stay single or go back to her husband. And a husband should not leave his wife.

New American Bible
—and if she does separate she must either remain single or become reconciled to her husband—and a husband should not divorce his wife.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if she depart, that she remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And let not the husband put away his wife.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And if she depart, that she remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And let not the husband put away his wife.

or.

Judges 19:2,3 And she left him, and returned to her father's house in Bethlehem, and abode with him four months. . . .

Jeremiah 3:1 It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and marry another man, shall he return to her any more? shall not that woman be polluted, and defiled? but thou hast prostituted thyself to many lovers: nevertheless return to me, saith the Lord, and I will receive thee.

and let.

Deuteronomy 22:19 Condemning him besides in a hundred sicles of silver, which he shall give to the damsel's father, because he hath defamed by a very ill name a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and may not put her away all the days of his life.

Isaiah 50:1 Thus saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce of your mother, with which I have put her away? or who is my creditor, to whom I sold you: behold you are sold for your iniquities, and for your wicked deeds have I put your mother away.

Mark 10:2 And the Pharisees coming to him asked him, tempting him: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife?

Context
Principles of Marriage
10But to them that are married, not I, but the Lord, commandeth that the wife depart not from her husband. 11And if she depart, that she remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And let not the husband put away his wife. 12For to the rest I speak, not the Lord. If any brother hath a wife that believeth not and she consent to dwell with him: let him not put her away.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:32
But I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, excepting the cause of fornication, maketh her to commit adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.

Mark 10:12
And if the wife shall put away her husband and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

Luke 16:18
Every one that putteth away his wife and marrieth another committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

1 Corinthians 7:10
But to them that are married, not I, but the Lord, commandeth that the wife depart not from her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:12
For to the rest I speak, not the Lord. If any brother hath a wife that believeth not and she consent to dwell with him: let him not put her away.

1 Corinthians 7:10
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