Marriage in the New Testament

In the New Testament, marriage is patriarchal (via the man) in character, as it is in the Old Testament: the man married, his wife was married to him.

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1 Corinthians 7.28 1 Corinthians 7.39 1 Timothy 4.3 Hebrews 13.4

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