Chapter 25

Chapter 25. Of Marriage

Paragraph 1: Marriage is to be between one man and one woman; neither is it lawful for any man to have more than one wife, nor for any woman to have more than one husband at the same time. 1

  1. Genesis 2:24; Malachi 2:15; Matthew 19:5-6

Paragraph 2: Marriage was ordained for the mutual help of husband and wife, 2 for the increase of mankind with a legitimate issue, 3 and for preventing of uncleanness. 4

  1. Genesis 2:18
  2. Genesis 1:28
  3. 1 Corinthians 7:2, 9

Paragraph 3: It is lawful for all sorts of people to marry, who are able with judgment to give their consent; 5 yet it is the duty of Christians to marry in the Lord; 6 and therefore such as profess the true religion, should not marry with infidels, or idolaters; neither should such as are godly, be unequally yoked, by marrying with such as are wicked in their life, or maintain damnable heresy. 7

  1. Hebrews 13:4; 1 Timothy 4:3
  2. 1 Corinthians 7:39
  3. Nehemiah 13:25-27

Paragraph 4: Marriage ought not to be within the degrees of consanguinity or affinity, forbidden in the Word; 8 nor can such incestuous marriages ever be made lawful, by any law of man or consent of parties, so as those persons may live together as man and wife. 9

  1. Leviticus 18
  2. Mark 6:18; 1 Corinthians 5:1

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