It was the first book ever published via printing press, and more copies have sold than of any other volume. People quote it the world over, and yet many don't even know the words of wisdom it has to impart. The Bible is God's plan for the world. It speaks of every topic that's of value to mankind and lets Christians know how God wants us to handle any given situation. One of the main themes in the Bible is that of marriage. God tells us right away in Genesis that it isn't right for man to be alone, and then he went about creating a woman to be man's partner for the purposes of companionship and procreation. So what else does the Bible say about marriage?
In the Bible God gives us a clear description of what marriage is. It is a union between one man and one woman. Right there He lets us know that other types of unions aren't okay, and then He goes on to tell us the sin that many have partaken in. In the book of Romans, his disciple, Paul, tells us about God's wrath against mankind. He says that God's anger was piqued when "their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones with lust for one another." Then he goes on to tell us "Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."
Even without this vivid description of how people were already using sex and marriage inappropriately, we can also get a picture of the way that true husbands and wives are supposed to be. Unfortunately, some of this advice can be unpalatable to modern women, and we need to keep in mind that Paul was speaking to an ancient audience within the mores of that time. Women are told to obey their husbands and allow them to be the heads of the households. And husbands are told to leave their mothers and fathers and love their wives as themselves.
The Bible outlines no plan for divorce. In fact, in the gospel of Matthew, Jesus very specifically tells us that "anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness and marries another woman commits adultery." While He goes on to say that it isn't necessary to marry at all in order to devote yourself to the church, He also says that if anyone can accept His marital teachings, then they should go ahead and marry. After all, children are intended to be born only within a marriage, and so marriage is necessary for the continuance of the human race.
Throughout the bible,God did say He frowns at divorce and anybody that falls in this sin,God will not be happy with.The below shows various bible passages that explans these....
Romans 7:2-3
For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband. So then if, while her husband is living, she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
Malachi 2:14-15
"Yet you say, 'For what reason?' Because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. "But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And what did that one do while he was seeking a godly offspring? Take heed then, to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth.
Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless let each individual among you also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see to it that she respect her husband.
Matthew 19:6
"Consequently they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."
Matthew 5:31-32
"And it was said, 'Whoever sends his wife away, let him give her a certificate of divorce'; but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the cause of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Finally,lets us pray to God so that our marriage will trive and we will live longer to reap the fruits of our labour.
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