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....
برای مثال ،‏ پولُس نوشت :‏ « حکم من برای متأهلان این است –‏ نه حکم من ،‏ بلکه حکم خداوند –‏ که زن نباید از شوهر خود جدا شود .‏ امّا اگر چنین کرد ،‏ دیگر نباید شوهر اختیار کند و یا اینکه باید با شوهر خود آشتی نماید .‏