1Cor 7:10-11, 8:1 | PNT | STEP | To the married I command . Some might say, "If the unmarried state is best now, it will be better to leave our married partner". He replies, "The Lord commands otherwise" ( ).

1 Corinthians 7:10-11

To the married I command. Some might say, "If the unmarried state is best now, it will be better to leave our married partner". He replies, "The Lord commands otherwise" (Mr 10:12 Mt 5:32 19:9). But and if she shall depart, etc. Provided, despite the prohibition, there is such disagreement that she leaves her husband, she must remain unmarried, or be reconciled.

Let not the husband put away [his] wife. The wife "departs", because she leaves the home; the husband "puts away his wife", by sending her off. Both are equally prohibited. The same rules apply to each sex. Among the Jews, only the husband exercised the right of divorce; among the Greeks and Romans, the wife exercised it equally with the husband.

1 Corinthians 8:1

The Duty of the String Toward Weaker Brethren SUMMARY OF I CORINTHIANS 8: Meat Offered in Idol Temples. Not Changed Because So Offered. But Not to Be Eaten Because of Weaker Brethren. Those Having Knowledge Must Act in Love.

As touching things offered to idols. Corinth, like all Greek cities, was full of temples to heathen idols. At their altars victims were constantly sacrificed, the flesh of which was afterwards eaten. The question arose whether a Christian could eat of such flesh without the sin of showing deference to an idol. Perhaps the letter to Paul had asked about this matter (1Co 7:1).

We all have knowledge. Some pleaded their knowledge that "an idol was nothing" (1Co 8:4), not divine in any sense. Paul tells them that the question is one, not of knowledge, but of charity.

Knowledge puffeth up. Those who professed to be knowing ones put on an air of superiority.