by Richard C. Nickels
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh," Genesis 2:24.
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"Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. . . . Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; . . . . Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right," Ephesians 5:22, 25, 6:1.
"And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery," Matthew 19:9.
"For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband," Romans 7:2.
"Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge," Hebrews 13:4.
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| A Voice From the Past on Marriage and Divorce. | A Sabbath-keeping minister from fifty years ago would be shocked to see how the Church today allows un-Biblical divorce and remarriage. I Corinthians 7 does not allow a "Pauline privilege" to divorce and remarry. |
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