A Biblical Marriage Ethic

A Biblical Marriage Ethic

In today’s culture, marriage is an institution in flux. The increasing popularity of cohabitation, the permissive mindset toward divorce, and the legalization of same sex marriage have all contributed to an evolving marriage ethic. But should our marriage ethic be changing? Is the institution of marriage ours to be altering? Today we explore what the Bible has to say about marriage and divorce in order to develop a biblically-based ethic of marriage.

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MARK 10:2-12

And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

10 And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. 11 And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, 12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”