Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Marriage must not be undervalued by the pretence of celibacy's superior purity, as if it were improper for any class of men. The doctrine of celibacy's holiness has caused more abomination in the world than nearly any other religious opinion and propped up the corruptions of Rome. The Apostle asserts without qualification: marriage is honourable in all.
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Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. (2) He commends chaste matrimony in all sorts of men, and threatens utter destruction from God against whoremongers and adulterers.
To prevent unbridled lust, God appoints marriage as the remedy. Because marriage is God's own institution, ordained in paradise and in man's innocency, it is honourable among all orders and ranks of men called to it. Rome's denial of marriage to the clergy usurps authority over consciences and judges itself too pure for what our first parents did not disdain.
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