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This tri-sectioned volume offers three short commentaries on Pauline Epistles that were written with a particular purpose and called for by a specific need. The commentary on 1 Corinthians 7 must have been a study item for Luther himself, for in it he gives himself the opportunity to come to grips with the whole matter of celibacy versus marriage. The second item is an extended series of sermons...

anyone should believe, but that is solely in God’s power. But since you do not know whether you are worthy that God should save your spouses through you, you should live in peace with them; and no husband should put pressure on his non-Christian wife or quarrel with her concerning faith, nor should any wife do so with a non-Christian husband. If God wants to convert them through you, He will help you to achieve this and distribute among you the grace and gifts for that purpose. This seems to me to
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