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Paul provides accommodation for the one who is abandon not the one who abandons. I'm not sure why you suggest the latter. v15 says "But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved." The abandon partner is no longer bound to their unbelieving partner. I'm not sure how else you would interpret this.
Thank you for emphasizing 1 Corinthians 7:15.
So I am reminded here by this verse that there is a another rule of exception involving unbelievers.
Verse 15 is a special case involving being married to unbelievers. But we still have to read verse 15 in light of 1 Corinthians 7:39 and Romans 7:2. These two verses say that a person is not loosed from the law of their marriage unless the other spouse is dead. A person cannot remarry still if the previous spouse is still alive.
Verse 15 is merely saying that if a person who is not a Christian wants to depart and divorce their Christian spouse, the believer should let the unbelieving spouse divorce them. But this does not mean they can remarry unless the spouse of their previous marriage dies. Should a Christian divorce their spouse because they are an unbeliever? Paul's advice is not to divorce them but he doesn't say it is a sin if you do. He says we are not in bondage in such cases. So yes, I do see that divorce could be allowed between a believer and an unbeliever; But they cannot remarry unless their previous spouse is dead.
1 Corinthians 6:16 says,
"What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh."
It's why there are sexual diseases when people have multiple sex partners.
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