Marriage

The Marriage of Sampson - Judges 14:8 – 14:20 (commentary)

In those days the parents arranged for a marriage, and there was several weeks between engagement and marriage. On the trip to Timnath with his parents he had killed a lion with his bare hands. Then several weeks later when he came back, perhaps to complete the marriage, …

Counsel for the Christians who are not married - I Corinthians 7:25 – 7:40 (commentary)

Unmarried Christians (vv. 25-40). The question was, “Must a Christian get married?” The extreme Jewish view was that it was a sin if a man reached twenty years of age without being married. Paul points out that the single man or woman has greater freedom to serve the …