When asked for help by Christians living in religiously divided households, elders refer to such counsel as that of Paul, who wrote: “To the married people I give instructions, yet not I but the Lord, that a wife should not depart from her husband; but if she should actually depart, let her remain unmarried or else make up again with her husband; and a husband should not leave his wife....
पौलाने लिहिले: “ज्यांनी लग्न केले आहे त्यांना मी आज्ञा करितो, मी नव्हे तर प्रभु करितो की, पत्नीने पतीपासून वेगळे होऊ नये; परंतु ती वेगळी झालीच तर तिने लग्न केल्यावाचून राहावे किंवा पतीबरोबर समेट करावा आणि पतीनेही पत्नीला सोडू नये....