SCRIPTURE CORNER

ON THE DUTIES OF THE STATE part three

God blessed marriage, it is then sin to abuse it God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth Genesis 1, 28
Marriage was blessed again by Christ Jesus who made it a Sacrament What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder. Matt 19, 6
Marriage abuse is against Christ's love for the Church which is to be mirrored in the sincerity of married couple mutual love for each other Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ. Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord: Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body. Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it Eph 5, 21-25
Abuse of the marriage is the sin against conscience: Then the angel Raphael said to him: Hear me, and I will shew thee who they are, over whom the devil can prevail. For they who in such manner receive matrimony, as to shut out God from themselves, and from their mind, and to give themselves to their lust, as the horse and mule, which have not understanding, over them the devil hath power Tb 6, 16.
The same can be said as a warning those who opt for abortionThou shalt not kill Exodus 20, 13
This is sin against humankind and is condemned by God: Woe to him that saith to his father: Why begettest thou? and to the woman: Why dost thou bring forth? Isa 45, 10.
The sanctity of marriage is the will of God and His word Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.Heb 13, 4.
But also, the word of God is the source of consolation Yet she shall be saved through childbearing; if she continue in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety. 1 Tim 2, 15