In 1 Corinthians Paul simply assumes that a certain kind of behaviour is unquestionably unacceptable, while in the same letter making very careful moral distinctions between matters covered by a «word of the Lord» (for example against divorce), matters he himself advises are best (keeping
an unbelieving wife), and matters intrinsically indifferent where we must be governed by respect for the consciences of others (eating butcher's meat which may have come from offerings to idols).
If it wasn't for God giving to me my dear
unbelieving wife I wouldn't hardly know what agape (love) was at all!
Not exact matches
A Christian can do just about anything he wants, to his neighbor or to his neighbor's
wife, but the Christian is always forgiven, while the
unbelieving neighbor and his
unbelieving will go to Hell.