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Hi, I'd be very thankful for prayer for unsaved relations as you are guided by the Lord. Please pray for wisdom as have experienced difficulty.
Thank you and God bless.
Thank you and God bless.
Dear @twcstp111 ,1 Corinthians 7:12-14 ESV / 231 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.
What joins a wife and a husband? Is it documents? Words that decree a vow?
It's love, see, love honors the vow, love owns it and keeps it in truth; if I have a brother who says he doesn't believe but then I witness him doing things and living by principles with are of God (he loves his neighbors and does uphold them well--he honors his friends and helps them in need--he stands for the oppressed and he helps the afflicted--his wife and his kids are happy with him and they do rejoice), then for what exactly should I be discouraged?
If somebody has a different speech than me or even a different understanding of words, but instinctively they know God and follow Him--which can be seen by their behavior--then this person is a believer. Jesus ministered principle; He taught virtue; he did not teach anything else--words, speech, and beliefs are a portion of the way of righteousness--it is when someone lives by the understanding and wisdom of uprightness that we know the truth is alive in them.
Again,
validating by word whether someone is a believer or not is actually just a credit to our own conscious and not theirs--see, The WORD teaches us to be good to one another, to be principled and not reprobate--to love without limit, spreading peace and joy wherever you go.
Dear @twcstp111 ,
Thank you for kindly replying to my prayer request. I just reread it and realised I ought to have stated that to my knowledge they had not yet professed belief rather than what I said.
With regard to marriage, I divorced some years ago. We did not share the same belief in God.
Our child, now grown up, now has younger siblings.
Obviously I would that we hadnt experienced a broken relationship, but we now have to think of the children.