What Does 1 Corinthians 7:10 Mean in the King James?
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
“Depart” is the same Greek verb Jesus uses for “put asunder,” so the verse names leaving as the separation of a joined bond.
THE MEANING
For the married reader now, the charge is direct: the wife is not to depart from her husband. The verse gives this command the Lord’s authority, not merely the speaker’s private judgment.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that this instruction is only the speaker’s personal opinion: the verse explicitly says, “not I, but the Lord.”
THE ROOT
χωρισθῆναι
chōristhēnai
GROWS FROM
χωριζ-
chōriz-
To separate, divide, or put apart.
English renders this verb “depart” here and “put asunder” in Matthew 19:6. The shared Greek verb lets both phrases show the same action: separation from a joined bond.
ALSO GROWS
chōrismós: separation; the state or act of being apart
χωρισμός
This noun carries the same root into the name of separation itself, making explicit what “depart” does to the bond.
achōristos: inseparable; not separated
ἀχώριστος
The negative form uses the same root to name a bond that cannot be put apart, bringing the root’s opposite into view.
THE PATTERN
Scripture treats union as a bond whose integrity is measured by what can, and cannot, separate it.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?THE THREAD
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.The Greek verb translated “depart” here is the same verb rendered “put asunder” there. The shared word makes the connection clear: the wife’s departing is named with the same language as separating what has been joined.
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