If the unbelieving mate wants to depart, let him depart.

Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

The apostle Paul spoke to the church by the commandment of God.

Also Paul occasionally rendered his opinion of that which was of God and when he spoke his own opinion, he told us it was his opinion, not the commandment of God.

I Corinthians 7:12-13   But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

The unbeliever is to dwell in peace with the believer, not fighting the believer in things of God.  It does not say for the believer to dwell with the unbeliever.  Therefore it is the believer who remains in the word of God and if the unbeliever wishes to dwell with the believer then the believer allows it.

But if the unbeliever wants to leave the believer, let that unbeliever leave.

14-15   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.

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace. 

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There was a man in our little church group who was married to an unbeliever.  This was his second wife.  He filed divorce papers against this unbeliever.  He wanted a divorce from her.

I asked him if she had committed adultery against him.  He replied, "No."

She did not want to leave him.  He wanted to leave her.

I told him the only scriptural reason for a man to divorce his wife was if she was committing adultery.

He discontinued the divorce proceedings.

Had this woman wanted to leave him, the Bible says to let her leave, if that is what she wants.  Then if she marries another man you will not be the cause of her adultery which she will commit by marrying another man.

Matthew 5:32    But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

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