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Marriage is an icon (image) of the relationship between Jesus and the Church. This is somewhat akin to the Old Testament prophets' use of marriage as an analogy to describe the relationship between God and Israel. Marriage is the simplest, most basic unity of the church: a congregation where "two or three are gathered together in Jesus' name."
Marriage in the Bible is important to both Judaism and Christianity: Christian views on marriage; Jewish views on marriage This page was last edited on 29 ...
In view of all the available biblical evidence relating to the divorce and remarriage problems in the Early Church, The General Council of the Assemblies of God has adopted interpretation six above—the description, "one woman man," is best understood to refer to persons in a sexually faithful, heterosexual, monogamous marriage, where neither ...
Marriage in the Catholic Church, also known as holy matrimony, is the "covenant by which a man and woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring", and which "has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament between the baptized". [1]
marriage is unlawful) causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. The New Living Translation translates this passage as: But I say that a man who divorces his wife, unless she has been unfaithful, causes her to commit adultery. And anyone who marries a divorced woman also commits adultery.
He informs them that marriage, and the comforts and satisfactions of that state, are by divine wisdom prescribed for preventing fornication (v. 2), Porneias—Fornications, all sorts of lawless lust. To avoid these, Let every man, says he, have his own wife, and every woman her own husband; that is, marry, and confine themselves to their own mates.
An 1880 Baxter process illustration of Revelation 22:17 by Joseph Martin Kronheim. The bride of Christ, or the lamb's wife, [1] is a metaphor used in number of related verses in the Christian Bible, specifically the New Testament – in the Gospels, the Book of Revelation, the Epistles, with related verses in the Old Testament.
The declaration may be prefaced by In the presence of God [14] The declaration may be prefaced by In the fear of the Lord and in the presence of this assembly [14] The word spouse may be replaced by wife or husband as appropriate or by partner in marriage [14] The phrase through divine assistance may be replaced by the words with God’s help [14]