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Questions about Biblical texts discussing marriage

The Bible makes reference to marriage as early as Adam & Eve, discusses marriage in ancient Israel (e.g. Deuteronomy 7), and records New Testament teachings on marriage both in the words of Jesus (e.g. the Sermon on the Mount) and in the writings of Paul, to name a few.

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Does 1 Corinthians 7:17, 20 mean God calls people to singleness against their own desire to marry?

It would appear that in 1 Corinthians 7:1-40 Paul talks mainly about marriage, and rightly so. Sometimes it seems that Paul switches in between certain subjects that veer off the topic of Marriage for a few lines, then he picks up again with…
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Is there a situation where God would want you to become unequally yoked? (2 Corinthians 6:14)

If you have 2 children with someone out of wedlock and have been a happy family for 22 years and then one person becomes saved and the other is not, how do you please God without sinning? Do you get married (before you share yourself with your…
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Did God actually divorce Israel?

This is found in Jeremiah 3:8 (NIV) I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery. Following the…
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Is marriage actually a sinful state?

Because the Gospels tell us that Jesus said, "In Heaven they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels..." Is He really stating that marriage is neither clean nor worthy of Heaven? I am reminded too that Jesus neither married…
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