purpose of marriage - Biblical ideas Flashcards

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Quote from Genesis 2:18? What does this suggest the purpose of marriage is?

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‘It is not good that a man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.’

companionship

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Quote from Genesis 1:28? What does this suggest about the purpose of marriage?

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‘Be fruitful and multiply’

sex

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Quote from Leviticus 18:19? What does this suggest about the purpose of marriage?

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‘You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness when she is in her menstrual uncleanness.’

sex = not always purpose of marriage

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Quote from Genesis 2:24? What does this suggest about the purpose of marriage?

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

sex

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Quote from Ephesians 5:32? What does this suggest about the purpose of marriage?

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‘…the two will become one flesh”…and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.’

to reflect Christ and his Church

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