God's Design For Marriage.

God's Design For Marriage.

and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? Matthew 19:5 NKJV

The fundamental law of marriage, which is, that a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, Matthew 19:5. The relation between husband and wife is nearer than that between parents and children now, if the filial relation may not easily be violated, much less may the marriage union be broken. May a child desert his parents, or may a parent abandon his children, for any cause, for every cause? No, by no means. Much less may a husband put away his wife, betwixt whom, though not by nature, yet by divine appointment, the relation is nearer, and the bond of union stronger, than between parents and children for that is in a great measure superseded by marriage, when a man must leave his parents, to cleave to his wife. See here the power of a divine institution, that the result of it is a union stronger than that which results from the highest obligations of nature. - Matthew Henry

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