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1 Corinthians 7:16-18
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16 For how do you know, wife, whether you will bring your husband to salvation?[a] Or how do you know, husband, whether you will bring your wife to salvation?[b]

The Circumstances of Your Calling

17 Nevertheless,[c] as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each person, so must he live. I give this sort of direction in all the churches. 18 Was anyone called after he had been circumcised? He should not try to undo his circumcision.[d] Was anyone called who is uncircumcised? He should not get circumcised.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 7:16 tn Grk “will save your husband?” The meaning is obviously that the wife would be the human agent in leading her husband to salvation.
  2. 1 Corinthians 7:16 tn Grk “will save your wife?” The meaning is obviously that the husband would be the human agent in leading his wife to salvation.
  3. 1 Corinthians 7:17 tn Or “only”; Grk “if not.”
  4. 1 Corinthians 7:18 tn Grk “Let him not pull over the foreskin,” that is, attempt to reverse the appearance of circumcision by a surgical procedure. This was sometimes done by Hellenistic Jews to hide the embarrassment of circumcision (1 Macc 1:15; Josephus, Ant. 12.5.1 [12.241]). Cf. BDAG 380 s.v. ἐπισπάω 3.
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