Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

General references

Bible References

The unbelieving husband

1 Corinthians 6:15
Don’t you know that your bodies are a part of Christ’s body? So should I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not!
Ezra 9:1
After these things had been done, the leaders approached me and said: “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the surrounding peoples whose detestable practices are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
1 Timothy 4:5
since it is sanctified by the word of God and by prayer.
Titus 1:15
To the pure, everything is pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; in fact, both their mind and conscience are defiled.

Else

Ezra 9:2
Indeed, the Israelite men have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has become mixed with the surrounding peoples. The leaders and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness!”
Isaiah 52:1
“Wake up, wake up;
put on your strength, Zion!
Put on your beautiful garments,
Jerusalem, the Holy City!
For the uncircumcised and the unclean
will no longer enter you.
Malachi 2:15
Didn’t the one God make us with a remnant of His life-breath? And what does the One seek? A godly offspring. So watch yourselves carefully, and do not act treacherously against the wife of your youth.
Acts 10:23
Peter then invited them in and gave them lodging.

The next day he got up and set out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa went with him.
Romans 11:16
Now if the firstfruits offered up are holy, so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.

General references

Matthew 19:15
After putting His hands on them, He went on from there.
1 Corinthians 11:11
In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, and man is not independent of woman.

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