I Want to Get Married

To Be Married Or Single...

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Written on January 30th, 2013

Now, getting down to the questions you asked in your letter to me. First, Is it a good thing to have sexual relations? Certainly—but only within a certain context. It’s good for a man to have a wife, and for a woman to have a husband. Sexual drives are strong, but marriage is strong enough to contain them and provide for a balanced and fulfilling sexual life in a world of sexual disorder. Themarriage bed must be a place of mutuality—the husband seeking to satisfy his wife, the wife seeking to satisfy her husband. Marriage is not a place to “stand up for your rights.” Marriage is a decision to serve the other, whether in bed or out. Abstaining from sex is permissible for a period of time if you both agree to it, and if it’s for the purposes of prayer and fasting—but only for such times. Then come back together again. Satan has an ingenious way of tempting us when we least expect it. I’m not, understand, commanding these periods of abstinence—only providing my best counsel if you should choose them.

1 Corinthians 7

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ForLove

This translation is more correct. 1 Corinthians 7, New King James Version (NKJV), Principles of Marriage

1 Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

2 Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

5 Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

6 But I say this as a concession, not as a commandment.

7 For I wish that all men were even as I myself (abstinent). But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.

8 But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am;

9 but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry.

Jan 31
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- ForLove
  No,... I get a more perfect message from the NKJV. That is how it reads to me. But the Word is alive and it is not meant to speak to all people in exactly the same way, because the Spirit has to meet you where you are, and lead you forward from that point, and everyone needs a slightly different message to move them forward. If a passage is short, I will often read multiple bible versions to see how it reads differently. Most often I check NKJV, NIV, some Jewish and Catholic bible versions. I generally do not like the more recent bible translations wherein the translators seem to have taken too much liberty in bending the words to say what they want them to say. At least one of the Catholic bibles does this, in my opinion, and also some of the more modern Christian bibles. JMO I agree with your last sentence. I am in favor of whatever translation is the most accurate translation of Jesus' WORDS. In my opinion, some translations tried to put down what Jesus MEANT instead of simply translating the words correctly. In my opinion, that is prideful to say we know ALL that Jesus MEANT. I think it is safer to translate His Words as exactly as possible, and as far as the interpretation of the words goes - that should be between the Holy Spirit and the person reading.
  
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brayon101

it all comes down to that we are all animals looking to survive and populate. You get married or live together you put your instinct aside because you have an emotional bond with one another or if you dont well it is because you have to financially or for the familly

Jan 30
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- ForLove
  We are not animals unless some choose to be.
  
  Jan 31
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- brayon101
  what i mean that we are living creatures on this planet and we are insctivelly wired the same ... we are more intelligent and feeling compared to animals yes
  
  Jan 31
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princecharmingII

So are you a virgin?

Jan 30
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- princecharmingII
  Oh ok ...I really don't mean bad at all ....I just liked your post and felt like asking....
  
  Feb 2
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- rw5453
  I think I took a wrong turn, hope ya all enjoy life
  
  Feb 7
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