1 Corinthians 7:11 (WEB)
(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
Catechism · 1
“"What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder."” — Catechism footnote: Mk 109; cf. Mt 19:1-12; 1 Cor 7: 10-11.
Fathers and councils · 9
Jerome
“The Lord has given commandment that a wife must not be put away “except it be for fornication, and that, if put away, she must remain unmarried.”” — editor's note: Matt. xix. 9; 1 Cor. vii. 11.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Lastly, he added straightway, “Both if thou shalt have taken a wife, thou hast not sinned; and, if a virgin shall have been married, she sinneth not.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 10, 11
Read the whole comment“…of the Lord, the wife ought not to depart from her husband, but, in case she shall have departed, to remain unmarried, or to be reconciled to her husband; whereas surely she ought not to depart and remain unmarried, save from an husband that is an adulterer, lest by withdrawing from him, who is not an adulterer,…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 10, 11
Read the whole comment“But unto the sanctity of the Sacrament that saying, “The wife not to depart from her husband, but, in case she shall have departed, to remain unmarried, or to be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 10, 11
Read the whole comment“…the wife depart from her husband: but and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 10, 11.
Read the whole comment“But in this section of the Gospel nothing is to be more steadily kept in view, than that so great is the evil of fornication, that, while married people are bound to one another by so strong a bond, this one cause of divorce is excepted; but as to what fornication is, that we have already discussed.” — editor's note: The law permitted divorce for “some uncleanness” (Deut. xxiv. 1). In the time of Christ divorce was allowed on trivial grounds. While Schammai interpreted the…
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Tertullian
“Even Christ, however, when He here commands “the wife not to depart from her husband, or if she depart, to remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband,” both permitted divorce, which indeed He never absolutely prohibited, and confirmed (the sanctity) of marriage, by first forbidding its dissolution; and, if…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 10, 11.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Rursus dicit Dominus: “Qui uxorem duxit, ne expellat; et qui non duxit, ne ducat;” qui ex proposito castitatis professus est uxorem non ducere maneat cælebs.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 10, 11.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“In the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: “But to them that are married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not be separated from her husband; but if she should depart, that she remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and that the husband should not put away his wife.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 10, 11.
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Cross-references · 16
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 7 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 7.
Cited together in Catechism §2364.
Cited together in Catechism §2364.
Cited together in Catechism §2364.
Cited together in Catechism §2364.
Cited together in Catechism §2364.
Cited together in Catechism §2364.
Cited together in Catechism §2364.
Cited together in Catechism §2364 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Catechism §2364 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Catechism §2364.
Cited together in Catechism §2364.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.16.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.16.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.16.