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Marriage 254with him where he decides and seeking to promote his interests andhappiness . She has the duty of performing domestic service in thehome and caring for her children .ORIGINInstituted by Jehovah upon Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden .-Gen . 1 :27, 28 ; 2 :22-24.Proper for Christians to Marry Deut . 7 :3, 4 "Neither shalt thouI Cor . 7 :9, 28, 36 "If they do make marriages with them [heanothave self-control, let them then in Canaan] ; thy daughtermarry. . . . if you did marry, you thou shalt not give unto his son,would commit no sin . . . . let him nor his daughter shalt thou takedo what he wants ; he does not unto thy son . For he will turnsin . Let them marry."away thy son from following me,that they may serve other gods :Heb . 13 :4 "Let marriage be so will the anger of Jehovah behonorable among all, and the kindled against you ."marriage bed be without defilement."Judg . 14 :3 "His father and hismother said unto him, Is there1 Cor . 9 :5 "We have authority never a woman among the daughtolead about a sister as a wife, ters of thy brethren, or amongeven as the rest of the apostles all my people, that thou goest toand the Lord's brothers and take a wife of the uncircum-Cephas, do we not?"cised Philistines?"Matt . 8 :14 "On coming into Gen . 26 :34, 35 "Esau . . . tookPeter's house Jesus saw his to wife [heathen women] : andmother-in-law lying down and they were a grief of mind untosick with fever ." Isaac and to Rebekah ."Acts 21 :8, 9 "Philip the mis- 2 Cor . 6 :14 "Do not become unsionary. . . had four daughters, evenly yoked with unbelievers .virgins, that prophesied ."For what partnership do right-Lev . 21 :10, 13 "He that is the eousness and lawlessness have?"high priest . . . shall take a wife Also : 1 Ki . 11 :1-9 .in her virginity ."Unmarried Christians Less Dis-Polygamy Prohibited toChristianstracted from Kingdom Interests1 Tim . 3 :2-4, 12 "The overseer1 Cor. 7 :32-34 "The single manshould therefore be irreprehen- is anxious for the thingsthesible, a husband of one wife . . .how he may gain theLord's mana man presiding over his house-.appovalapproval . But thehold in a right manner, having is anxious fof thechildren in subjection . . Let world, how he s themay thingsgain the a sministerial servants be husbands proval of his wife, and heisof one wife, presiding in a rightdivided."manner over children and their Matt. 19 :11, 12 "[Jesus] saidown households."to them : `Not all men make roomChristians Marry Only for the saying, but only thoseChristians who have the gift . . . . there are1 Cor . 7 :39 "A wife . . . if hereunuchs that have made themhusbandshould fall asleep in selves eunuchs because of thedeath . . . is free to be married to kingdom of the heavens . Let himwhom she wants, only in the that can make room for it makeLord ." room for it.'"