so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of mankind, but on the power of God.

But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her.

I say this for your own benefit, not to put a restraint on you, but to promote what is appropriate and to secure undistracted devotion to the Lord.

Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?