However, if the one who is not a believer wishes to leave the Christian partner, let it be so. In such cases the Christian partner, whether husband or wife, is free to act. God has called you to live in peace.

"Glory to God in the highest heaven, and peace on earth to those with whom he is pleased!"

May God, our source of peace, be with all of you. Amen.

But the Spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

May the Lord himself, who is our source of peace, give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with you all.

God has raised from death our Lord Jesus, who is the Great Shepherd of the sheep as the result of his blood, by which the eternal covenant is sealed. May the God of peace provide you with every good thing you need in order to do his will, and may he, through Jesus Christ, do in us what pleases him. And to Christ be the glory forever and ever! Amen.

But the wisdom from above is pure first of all; it is also peaceful, gentle, and friendly; it is full of compassion and produces a harvest of good deeds; it is free from prejudice and hypocrisy.

And goodness is the harvest that is produced from the seeds the peacemakers plant in peace.

For this purpose I am sending to you Timothy, who is my own dear and faithful son in the Christian life. He will remind you of the principles which I follow in the new life in union with Christ Jesus and which I teach in all the churches everywhere.

Each of you should go on living according to the Lord's gift to you, and as you were when God called you. This is the rule I teach in all the churches.

But if anyone wants to argue about it, all I have to say is that neither we nor the churches of God have any other custom in worship.