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Last Updated on : Saturday, October 11, 2014

 

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Chapter 4:
Marriage Is Honorable


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IT is a great mistake to think that Paul discountenanced marriage because upon one occasion, by reason of certain distress, he gave exceptional advice (1 Cor. 7:26). To the Hebrews (Ch. 13:4) he wrote of marriage being honourable in all, and the word he used has been rendered had in reputation (Acts 5:34): dear (Acts 20:24); precious (1 Cor. 3:12); most precious (Rev. 21:11); and similarly in fourteen texts. Besides, Paul expressly commanded "the young women to marry" (1 Tim. 5:14). Who were they to marry? Surely not old brethren -- or the medically unfit -- or the alien young men! No: marriage is honourable in all. Brother Roberts was right in concluding as he did: "I always felt that marriage was something that lay in my path before I could enter upon the earnest work of life. And, now I see how serviceable it has been in every way for the work that has been done." How many of us who have been Christadelphians practically all our lives can say Amen to those conclusions? - F.G.J.

 


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