9 but ^aif they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.  ‡

10 Now to the married I command, yet not I but the ^aLord: ^bA wife is not to depart from her husband.  ‡

12 But to the rest I, not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her.

13 And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is willing to live with her, let her not divorce him.