1 Corinthians 7:14

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1 Corinthians 7:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible

12 To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her.

13 And if a woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him.

14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

15 But if the unbeliever leaves, let him go. The believing brother or sister is not bound in such cases. God has called you to live in peace.

16 How do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

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1 Corinthians 6:15

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1 Corinthians 6:16

Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”

1 Corinthians 6:17

But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.

Ezra 9:1

After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.

Ezra 9:2

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1 Timothy 4:5

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Titus 1:15

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Isaiah 52:1

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Malachi 2:15

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Malachi 2:16

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Acts 10:23

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Romans 11:16

If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.