1 CORINTHIANS 7:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“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.”
For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. — The word 'sanctified' (hēgiasmai = set apart) does not denote regeneration but rather inclusion in the household of faith. The unbeliever is consecrated by association with a believer, possibly opening the door to conversion. The logic extends to children: they inherit the consecrated status of the believing parent, preventing them from being 'unclean' (akathartos = excluded, defiled). This reflects the covenant principle that God's sanctifying work extends to the household of the believer.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 7:14
“But to the rest speak I, not the Lord. If any brother have a wife that believes not, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her. And if any woman has an husband that believes not, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave him.” For as when discoursing about separating from fornicators, he made the matter easy by the correction which he applied to his words, saying, “Howbeit, not altogether with the fornicators of this world;” so also in this…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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