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Contents[Show] Marriage: God's Good Creation (Genesis 2:18-21) Marriage: A Beautiful Reflection (Ephesians 5:22-31) The Single Life: Good! (I Cor. 7) Sexual Purity: For Christ's Sake (Proverbs 5:3ff;I Corinthians 6:9ff.) Husbands, Love Your Wives (Ephesians 5:23,25-28) Wives, Be Subject To You
And when society and life became more complex and was divided into separate institutions of learning, of work, of government, it nevertheless all came forth from the relation between parents and children, from the institution of the family which marriage made possible. Thus the marriage relation is
of the marriage of a believer and an unbeliever (which the divorcing and remarrying mate shows himself or herself to be) are "holy." Nevertheless, the children in a divorce are deeply troubled by the divorce; their family-life, their precious family-life, is shattered. Likely, the divorce is ruinous
In the second place, marriage was instituted as a bond of the most intimate possible nature. The Genesis narrative stresses this when it reveals "(God) took one of Adam's ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib which the Lord God had taken from man, made He a woman, and brought he
Marriage is for life. Marriage is a special, truly astounding union of one man and one woman for as long as they both shall live. God instituted marriage in the beginning. That work of God is recorded in Genesis 2, another essential reason for insisting that the first eleven chapters of Genesis are
Marriage of al humane actions is the one & only weightiest. It is the present disposall of the whole life of man: it is a Gordian knot that may not bee loosed but by the sworde of death: it is the ring of union whose poesie is Pure and endlesse. In a word it is that state which either imparadizeth a
In the Christian family God has given us a beautiful model of how life ought to be lived. It is a model that God blesses and that we should earnestly seek to follow and defend. Unfortunately, it is also a model that today's society threatens to undermine and weaken. Profound changes are taking plac
Marriage is intended by God to be a relationship of intimate communion, fellowship, and friendship between a man and a woman. The atmosphere in which this relationship thrives is that of love. The husband must continually assure his wife of the love that he has for her -- even as God repeatedly tell
Without getting deeply involved in the various social spheres, for this article we must begin by distinguishing, as does the Bible, between marriage and the family as institutions. The marriage is one institution and the family is another, even though they are closely connected and are united under
By these means, God preserves His covenant people not only in the proper view of marriage and the family, but in a proper walk in marriage and in the family. Family, Marriage