Principles of Marriage

Now in response to the matters you wrote about: "it is good for a man not to have relations with a woman. But because sexual immorality is so common, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband. A husband should fulfillment his marital responsibility to his wife and a wife to her husband.

I say to the unmarried  and the widows: it is good for them they remain as I am. But if they do not have self-control, they should marry, for it is better to marry that to burn with desire."

1 Cor 7:1-3;8,9

Some people are just good at being single, yet many want to be married. As a divorcee I experienced a long time of longing for a husband. I do not long any more, now that I am whole and free from my past. Yet I understand the desire to marry. I wonder if whole people desire marriage less or if they still desire marriage, should the right person become available?

Marriage is a good place for two people who are in the right place themselves, before they enter marriage. It is amazing how a business goes better with right instruction and principles, I Imagine that marriage would be the same.

I don't know how young Christians can wait to well into their 30s before they marry. I trust that they do is in purity as this is so much more satisfying.

Paul had no desire to marry, he was content with who he was and he was totally focussed on the task of spreading the gospel. We know Peter was married but are not told as to how his marriage affected his ministry. I wonder! Did he have children? Did they join him in his ministry?