For what knowest thou, &c.— Continue with your infidel spouses who are willing to dwell with you; for how knowest thou, O Christian wife, whether thou shalt convert thy husband, (see 1 Peter 3:1.) and how knowest thou, O Christian husband, whether thou shalt convert thy wife, if thou continue with her. But, though this should not be the case, yet as God hath distributed to every one his lot, and in the state wherein the Lord Christ hath called every one, so let him continue,fulfillingthedutiesthereof,unlesshecanchangehiscondition lawfully. And so in all the churches I ordain.
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1 Corinthians 7:16-17
16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or howb knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.