This is the teaching of Jesus on Marriage, Matthew chapter five, and seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain, and when he was set his disciples came unto him, and he opened his mouth and taught them. Dear brother I want to bring out the teaching of Jesus about marriage so we will move to the thirty first verse of chapter five. Jesus speaking, it hath been said; whosoever shall put away his wife let him give her a writing of divorcement: Jesus during his life lived under the Law of Moses, the Hebrew term used for the first Five Books of the Bible named the Torah or Pentateuch. Genesis is the first of these five books, and Jesus is speaking about the law recorded in the book of Deuteronomy which is the last of these. In the twenty second chapter and twenty forth chapter, which part deals with putting away a wife. The twenty second chapter of Deuteronomy has commandments in it consering a newly wed wife and a wife caught lying with anther man, I want to show the first woman was a fornicator and the second woman an adulator, both acts were punishable by death. In verse thirty two of Matthew five Jesus speaking, but I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committed adultery. Jesus at this time is speaking of the woman who just got married in Deuteronomy 22:13 thru verse21, and was not a virgin meaning she was a fornicator, marital infidelity because she had sex before she got married and the husband did not know it until he married her. Jesus gives no other reason at this time for divorce except what the first woman did, not the second woman. Jesus shows that marriage is for life as it was in the beginning Genesis 1:27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Jesus said in Matthew 19:5 and 6 for this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh, wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What God therefore hath joined together let not a man put asunder.
Jesus in Luke16:18 said whosoever putted away his wife, and married another, committeth adultery; and whosoever married her that is put away from her husband committed adultery. In the tenth chapter of the book of Mark, Jesus is being asked privately about the same teaching verse 10,11and12; And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter and he said unto them; 'whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another,committeth adultery against her, and if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committed adultery". The Law of Moses was given to the house of Israel and to no other nation. The Old Testament Law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. In the New Testament Jesus said in John14:15 if you love me keep my commandments.
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THIS IS THE TEACHING OF JESUS ON MARRIAGE
First Epistle Of Saint Paul To The Corinthians
Lessons relating to marriage and celibacy. Virginity is preferable to a married state.
1 Now concerning the thing whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render the debt to his wife, and the wife also in like manner to the husband. 4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife. 5 Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer; and return together again, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency.
2 "Have his own wife"... That is, keep to his wife, which he hath. His meaning is not to exhort the unmarried to marry: on the contrary, he would have them rather continue as they are. (Ver. 7: 8.) But he speaks here to them that are already married; who must not depart from one another, but live together as they ought to do in the marriage state.
6 But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment. 7 For I would that all men were even as myself: but every one hath his proper gift from God; one after this manner, and another after that. 8 But I say to the unmarried, and to the widows: It is good for them if they so continue, even as I. 9 But if they do not contain themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be burnt. 10 But to them that are married, not I but the Lord commandeth, that the wife depart not from her husband.
6 "By indulgence"... That is, by a condescension to your weakness.
9 "If they do not contain"... This is spoken of such as are free, and not of such as, by vow, have given their first faith to God; to whom if they will use proper means to obtain it, God will never refuse the gift of continency. Some translators have corrupted this text, by rendering it, if they cannot contain.
11 And if she depart, that she remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And let not the husband put away his wife. 12 For to the rest I speak, not the Lord. If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she consent to dwell with him, let him not put her away. 13 And if any woman hath a husband that believeth not, and he consent to dwell with her, let her not put away her husband. 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife; and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the believing husband: otherwise your children should be unclean; but now they are holy. 15 But if the unbeliever depart, let him depart. For a brother or sister is not under servitude in such cases. But God hath called us in peace.
12 "I speak, not the Lord"... Viz., by any express commandment, or ordinance.
14 "Is sanctified"... The meaning is not, that the faith of the husband or the wife is of itself sufficient to put the unbelieving party, or their children, in the state of grace and salvation; but that it is very often an occasion of their sanctification, by bringing them to the true faith.
16 For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife? 17 But as the Lord hath distributed to every one, as God hath called every one, so let him walk: and so in all churches I teach. 18 Is any man called, being circumcised? let him not procure uncircumcision. Is any man called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. 19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing: but the observance of the commandments of God. 20 Let every man abide in the same calling in which he was called.
21 Wast thou called, being a bondman? care not for it; but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. 22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a bondman, is the freeman of the Lord. Likewise he that is called, being free, is the bondman of Christ. 23 You are bought with a price; be not made the bondslaves of men. 24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God. 25 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give counsel, as having obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithful.
26 I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity, that it is good for a man so to be. 27 Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. 28 But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: nevertheless, such shall have tribulation of the flesh. But I spare you. 29 This therefore I say, brethren; the time is short; it remaineth, that they also who have wives, be as if they had none; 30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
31 And they that use this world, as if they used it not: for the fashion of this world passeth away. 32 But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife, is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please God. 33 But he that is with a wife, is solicitous for the things of the world, how he may please his wife: and he is divided. 34 And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that is married thinketh on the things of the world, how she may please her husband. 35 And this I speak for your profit: not to cast a snare upon you; but for that which is decent, and which may give you power to attend upon the Lord, without impediment.
36 But if any man think that he seemeth dishonoured, with regard to his virgin, for that she is above the age, and it must so be: let him do what he will; he sinneth not, if she marry. 37 For he that hath determined being steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but having power of his own will; and hath judged this in his heart, to keep his virgin, doth well. 38 Therefore, both he that giveth his virgin in marriage, doth well; and he that giveth her not, doth better. 39 A woman is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband die, she is at liberty: let her marry to whom she will; only in the Lord. 40 But more blessed shall she be, if she so remain, according to my counsel; and I think that I also have the spirit of God.
36 "Let him do what he will. He sinneth not"... The meaning is not, as libertines would have it, that persons may do what they will and not sin, provided they afterwards marry; but that the father, with regard to the giving his virgin in marriage, may do as he pleaseth; and that it will be no sin to him if she marry.
