Marriage Covenant
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Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
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Romans 7:2
For the woman which has an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he lives; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
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Matthew 19:6
Why they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.
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The Covenant of Grace
... This is a marriage covenant. "I am married to you, saith the Lord." Jeremiah
3:14. ... Before the marriage-covenant there must be a divorce. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a body of divinity/1 the covenant of grace.htm

Questions and Answers
... is equal to the responsibility, and as long as they continue to love each other
they will never have the slightest disposition to break that marriage covenant. ...
/.../byers/sanctification/chapter xii questions and answers.htm

Letter xviii. Marriage.
... 2. That the marriage covenant should be cemented by a principle of a peculiar kind,
will appear from the superiority of the soul over the body. ...
/.../a practical directory for young christian females/letter xviii marriage.htm

Covenant Duties.
... Covenant, present themselves before him.[257] In the marriage covenant husband and
wife bind themselves in the presence of God to the duties of that relation. ...
/.../cunningham/the ordinance of covenanting/chapter iv covenant duties.htm

Dorrelites.
... Those who are raised are free from all civil laws; are not bound by the marriage
covenant; and the perfect have a right to promiscuous intercourse. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/hayward/the book of religions/dorrelites.htm

In those Years I Taught Rhetoric, And, Overcome by Cupidity...
... one, remaining faithful even to her; in whom I in my own case experienced what
difference there is betwixt the self-restraint of the marriage-covenant, for the ...
/.../augustine/the confessions of saint augustine/chapter ii in those years.htm

Christ the Best Husband: or an Earnest Invitation to Young Women ...
... Jesus Christ, my dear sisters, doth choose you merely by his free grace; it is freely
of his own mercy, that he brings you into the marriage covenant: You, who ...
/.../whitefield/selected sermons of george whitefield/christ the best husband or.htm

Jesus as a Friend.
... "For better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health," runs the
marriage covenant. The covenant in all true friendship is the same. ...
/.../miller/personal friendships of jesus/chapter xv jesus as a.htm

The First Commandment
... After choice the marriage-covenant follows. As ... God looks upon it as breaking
the marriage-covenant, to go after other gods. Therefore ...
/.../watson/the ten commandments/2 1 the first commandment.htm

What Jesus Says of the Meaning of his Miracles
... hierarchy: "An evil and adulterous generation (that is, according to prophetical
phraseology; a generation which apostatized from the marriage covenant with God ...
//christianbookshelf.org/beth/the miracles of jesus/ii what jesus says of.htm

Resources
What is the definition of marriage? | GotQuestions.org

What constitutes marriage according to the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

What is God's design for marriage? | GotQuestions.org

Marriage: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Biracial Marriage

Interracial Marriage

Marriage

Marriage After Death

Marriage After Divorce

Marriage and Divorce

Marriage and Finances

Marriage and Love

Marriage Covenant

Marriage in Heaven

Marriage Reconciliation

Marriage Relationship

Marriage Separation

Marriage Vows

Marriage: A Benediction Pronounced After

Marriage: A Covenant Relationship

Marriage: A Dowry Given to the Woman's Parents Before

Marriage: A Herald Preceded the Bridegroom

Marriage: Advised

Marriage: Betrothal a Quasi-Marriage

Marriage: Betrothal Made With the Spirit

Marriage: Bridal Ornaments

Marriage: Bridal Presents

Marriage: Celebrated for Seven Days

Marriage: Celebrated with Feasting

Marriage: Celebrated with Great Rejoicing

Marriage: Celibacy Deplored

Marriage: Ceremony Attested by Witnesses

Marriage: Christ's Union With his Church

Marriage: Consanguinous, Abraham and Sarah

Marriage: Consent of the Parties Necessary To

Marriage: Contracted at the Gate and Before Witnesses

Marriage: Contracted in Patriarchal Age With Near Relations

Marriage: Daughters Given In, As Rewards of Valor

Marriage: David Gave One Hundred Philistine Foreskins for a Wife

Marriage: Designed For: Increasing the Human Population

Marriage: Designed For: Preventing Fornication

Marriage: Designed For: Raising up Godly Seed

Marriage: Designed For: The Happiness of Man

Marriage: Divinely Instituted

Marriage: Early Introduction of Polygamy

Marriage: Elder Daughters Usually Given In, Before the Younger

Marriage: Expressed by Giving Daughters to Sons, and Sons to Daughters

Marriage: Expressed by Joining Together

Marriage: Expressed by Making Affinity

Marriage: Expressed by Taking to Wife

Marriage: Figurative

Marriage: Garments Provided for Guests At

Marriage: Given by Kings

Marriage: God's Union With the Jewish Nation

Marriage: Honorable for All

Marriage: Indissoluble During the Joint Lives of the Parties

Marriage: Infidelity of Those Contracted In, Punished As If Married

Marriage: Isaac and Rebekah

Marriage: Jacob and his Wives

Marriage: Jesus Present At

Marriage: Lawful in All

Marriage: Levirate (The Brother Required to Marry a Brother's Widow)

Marriage: Modes of Demanding Women In

Marriage: Not Binding After Death

Marriage: Nuptial Feasts

Marriage: Obligations Under, Inferior to Duty to God

Marriage: Often Contracted by Parents for Children

Marriage: Parables From

Marriage: Parents' Consent Requires in the Mosaic Law

Marriage: Parents Contract for Their Children: Abraham for Isaac

Marriage: Parents Contract for Their Children: Hagar Selects a Wife for Ishmael

Marriage: Parents Contract for Their Children: Laban Arranges for his Daughters' Marriage

Marriage: Parents Contract for Their Children: Samson Asks his Parents to Procure Him a Wife

Marriage: Parents Might Refuse to Give Their Children In

Marriage: Presents Given to Parents to Secure Their Favor

Marriage: Priest not to Contract, With Divorced or Improper Persons

Marriage: should be Only in the Lord

Marriage: should be With Consent of Parents

Marriage: The Bride: Adorned With Jewels For

Marriage: The Bride: Attended by Bridesmaids

Marriage: The Bride: Called to Forget Her Father's House

Marriage: The Bride: Given a Handmaid At

Marriage: The Bride: Gorgeously Apparelled

Marriage: The Bride: Received Presents Before

Marriage: The Bride: Stood on the Right of Bridegroom

Marriage: The Bridegroom: Adorned With Ornaments

Marriage: The Bridegroom: Attended by Many Friends

Marriage: The Bridegroom: Crowned With Garlands

Marriage: The Bridegroom: Presented With Gifts

Marriage: The Bridegroom: Rejoiced Over the Bride

Marriage: The Bridegroom: Returned With the Bride to his House at Night

Marriage: The Expectation of the Promised Seed of the Woman An

Marriage: The Groom Exempt One Year from Military Duty

Marriage: The High Priest not to Contract, With a Widow or a Divorced

Marriage: The Jews were Allowed Divorce From, Because of Hardness of Their

Marriage: The Jews: Betrothed Themselves some Time Before

Marriage: The Jews: Careful in Contracting for Their Children

Marriage: The Jews: Considered Being Debarred From, a Cause of Grief

Marriage: The Jews: Considered Being Debarred From, a Reproach

Marriage: The Jews: Contracted when Young

Marriage: The Jews: Exempted from Going to War Immediately After

Marriage: The Jews: Forbidden to Contract With Idolaters

Marriage: The Jews: Forbidden to Contract, With Their Near Relations

Marriage: The Jews: Obliged to Contract With a Brother's Wife Who Died Without

Marriage: The Jews: Often Contracted With Foreigners

Marriage: The Jews: Often Contracted, in Their own Tribe

Marriage: The Jews: Often Punished by Being Debarred From

Marriage: The Jews: Sometimes Guilty of Polygamy

Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To

Marriage: Wedding Robes Adorned With Jewels

Marriage: Wives Among the Israelites Must be Israelites

Marriage: Wives Obtained by Kidnapping

Marriage: Wives Obtained by Purchase

Marriage: Wives Taken by Edict

Matrimony

Remarriage

Marred
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