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
You know that your bodies belong to the Messiah, don't you? Should I take what belongs to the Messiah and unite them with a prostitute? Certainly not!
Ezra 9:1
After these things occurred, certain officials approached me and said "The people of Israel, the priests, and the descendants of Levi have not separated themselves from the people of the lands or from the detestable behavior of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites,
1 Timothy 4:5
because it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
Titus 1:15
Everything is clean to those who are clean, but nothing is clean to those who are corrupt and unbelieving. Indeed, their very way of thinking and their consciences have been corrupted.

Else

Ezra 9:2
because they and their sons have married foreign women. As a result, the holy people have mingled themselves among the nations of these lands. As a matter of fact, the senior officials and the rulers have been foremost in this sin."
Isaiah 52:1
Awake, awake! Clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city, for the uncircumcised and the unclean won't enter you.
Malachi 2:15
Did he not make them one? And the vestige of the spirit remains in him. And why did he make them one? He was seeking godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and don't be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.
Acts 10:23
So Peter welcomed them as his guests. The next day, he got up and went with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa went along with him.
Romans 11:16
If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

General references

Matthew 19:15
When he had laid his hands on them, he went on from there.
1 Corinthians 11:11
In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man of woman.

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