Christian Marriage and the Family SOW

Question 1

Marriage

Answer 1

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Question 2

Sexual Relationships

Answer 2

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

Question 3

Family

Answer 3

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Train up a child in the way of the Lord; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Question 4

Support for the family

Answer 4

A new command I give you: love one another.

Question 5

Contraception

Answer 5

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Be fruitful and multiply

Question 6

Divorce

Answer 6

“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

Question 7

Equality

Answer 7

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Question 8

Gender prejudice and discrimination

Answer 8

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word