Reply #27: Marriage

[James T. Kirk]

Here are two bible items describing marriage. We used them at our wedding!


The Creation of Woman
Genesis 2:18-24

The Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him and helpmate.”

So from the soil the Lord God fashioned all the wild beasts and all the birds of heaven. These he brought to the man to see what he would call them; each one was to bear the name the man would give it.

The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of heaven and all the wild beasts. But no helpmate suitable for man was found for him.

So the Lord God made the man fall into a deep sleep. And while he slept, he took one of his ribs and enclosed it in flesh.

The Lord God built the rib he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man.

The man exclaimed:

”This at last is bone from my bones,
and flesh from my flesh!
This is to be called woman,
for this was taken from man.”

This is why a man leaves his father and mother and joins himself to his wife, and they become one body.

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The Mystery of Marriage
Ephesians 5:2a, 21-33

Give way to one another in obedience to Christ. Wives should regard their husbands as they regard the Lord, since as Christ is head of the Church and saves the whole body, so is the husband the head of his wife;
and as the Church submits to Christ, so should wives to their husbands, in everything.