1. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”
Genesis 2:24

2. Marriage
Remarriage?

3. Some highlights of the modern view of marriage:
Definitions
Generic modern definitions:
Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary
Wordnet (Princeton) online dictionary
Wikipedia online encyclopedia
Some highlights of the modern view of marriage:
Union of individuals, whether same-sex or not
A contract, recognized and sanctioned by law
2nd, subsequent legal unions also called marriage
Change of personal and social status for the married
Marriage

4. Marriage Definitions Generic modern definitions:
Merriam-Webster, Wordnet, Wikipedia; etc.
Specific modern legal definitions: [application]
South Carolina Legislature
Legislature from other states
As of this study, 11 states in some form accept
or legalize same-sex marriages
U.S. constitution does not provide legislation
with regards to marriage; a state-level issue
Marriage

5. Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and legal codes
Definitions
Remember:
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and legal codes
do not create word definitions; rather, they reflect what is common usage of the day.
Therefore, if we desire to analyze a word in its context, it helps if we understand that word’s origins and meaning at the time it was used.
Marriage

6. Marriage Definitions Generic modern definitions:
Merriam-Webster, Wordnet, Wikipedia; etc.
Specific modern legal definitions: [application]
South Carolina and other state Legislature
Generic Bible definitions:
Old Testament [Hebrew]
Strong’s Exhaustive Bible Concordance
marriage(s), married, marry(ing) = 10 Heb. words
Marriage

7. Marriage Definitions Generic modern definitions:
Merriam-Webster, Wordnet, Wikipedia; etc.
Specific modern legal definitions: [application]
South Carolina and other state Legislature
Generic Bible definitions:
Old Testament [Hebrew]
New Testament [Greek]
Vine’s Expository Dict. Of New Testament Words
marriage, marry = 7 Greek words
Marriage

8. Vine’s Expository Dict. Of New Testament:
“marriage” [KJV, etc.]; “wedding” [NKJV, etc.] {noun}:
(1) - gamos (16x): marriage, wedding, wedding feast;
“king who arranged a wedding” [Matt. 22:2]
“who were invited to the wedding” [Matt. 22:3]
“Come to the wedding” [Matt. 22:4 – “feast”]
“The wedding is ready” [Matt. 22:8]
“invite to the wedding” [Matt. 22:9]
“And the wedding hall was filled” [Matt. 22:10]
“a wedding garment” [Matt. 22:11-12 (2x)]
“went in with him to the wedding” [Matt. 25:10]
“he will return from the wedding” [Luke 12:36]
“invited…to a wedding feast” [Luke 14:8]
“was a wedding in Cana” [John 2:1-2 (2x)]
“Marriage is honorable among all” [Heb. 13:4]
“marriage of the Lamb has come” [Rev. 19:7]
“marriage supper of the Lamb!” [Rev. 19:9]

9. Vine’s Expository Dict. Of New Testament:
“to marry” {verb}:
(2) - gameo (29x): to marry; married [past tense]
*“marries a woman who is divorced” [Matt. 5:32]
“died after he had married” [Matt. 22:25]
*“divorces…and marries” [Matt 19:9 (2x); Mk 10]
“it is better not to marry” [Matt. 19:10]
“neither marry” [Matt. 22:30; Mk. 12:25]
*“Philip’s wife; for he had married her” [Mk 6:17]
*“divorces her husband and marries” [Mk 10:12]
“I have married a wife” [Luke 14:20]
*“marries her who is divorced” [Luke 16:18 (2x)]
“they married wives” [Luke 17:27]
“Now to the married I command” [1 Cor. 7:10]
“he/she who is married cares” [1 Cor. 7:33-34]
“she is at liberty to be married” [1 Cor. 7:39]
“marrying and giving in marriage” [Matt. 24:38]

10. Vine’s Expository Dict. Of New Testament:
“to give in marriage” {verb}:
(3) - gamisko (1x): to be given in marriage [passive]
“…nor are given in marriage” [Mk. 12:25]
“to give (out) in marriage” {verb}:
(4) - ekgamisko (4x): to be given in marriage [passive]
“…nor are given in marriage” [Matt. 22:30]
“they were given in marriage” [Luke 17:27]
“are given in marriage” [Luke 20:34]
“nor are given in marriage” [Luke 20:35]
“to give (out) in marriage” {verb}:
(5) - ekgamizo (3x): to give in marriage [active]
“marrying and giving in marriage” [Matt 24:38]
“he who gives her in marriage” [1 Cor. 7:38]
“does not give her in marriage” [1 Cor. 7:38]

11. Vine’s Expository Dict. Of New Testament:
“to take to wife after” {verb}:
(6) - epigambreuo (1x): to marry a dead husband’s brother
“his brother shall marry his wife” [Matt. 22:24]
“to become [another man’s]” {verb}:
(7) - ginomai (3x): to cause to be; to become; to be married
*“her husband lives, she marries” [Rom. 7:3]
“though she has married another” [Rom. 7:3]
“that you may be married to another” [Rom 7:4]
“to give in marriage” {verb}:
(8?) - gamizo (7x?): to give or be given in marriage
- is found in some manuscripts in the place of
ekgamizo, gamisko, and ekgamisko, above

12. Marriage Definitions Generic modern definitions:
Merriam-Webster, Wordnet, Wikipedia; etc.
Specific modern legal definitions: [application]
South Carolina and other state Legislature
Generic Bible definitions:
O. T. Hebrew and N. T. Greek word meanings
Marriage

13. Some highlights of the biblical view of marriage:
Definitions
Generic modern definitions:
Merriam-Webster, Wordnet, Wikipedia; etc.
Specific modern legal definitions: [application]
South Carolina and other state Legislature
Some highlights of the biblical view of marriage:
Generic Bible definitions:
Union of man and woman; same-sex is not marriage
O. T. Hebrew and N. T. Greek word meanings
A contract, “taking in”/“taking on” new role, relations
2nd, subsequent legal unions also called marriage
Marriage

14. Marriage Definitions Generic modern definitions:
Merriam-Webster, Wordnet, Wikipedia; etc.
Specific modern legal definitions: [application]
South Carolina and other state Legislature
Generic Bible definitions:
O. T. Hebrew and N. T. Greek word meanings
Specific Bible definitions: [application]
Genesis 2:18-25
Marriage

15. Genesis 2:18-25
(18) And the LORD God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.

16. Genesis 2:18-25
(18) And the LORD God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.
(19) Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.

17. Genesis 2:18-25
(18) And the LORD God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.
(19) Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.
(20) So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.

18. Genesis 2:18-25
(21) And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

19. Genesis 2:18-25
(21) And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
(22) Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.

20. Genesis 2:18-25
(21) And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
(22) Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.
(23) And Adam said: "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.”

21. Genesis 2:18-25
(21) And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
(22) Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.
(23) And Adam said: "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.”
(24) Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

22. Genesis 2:18-25
(21) And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
(22) Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.
(23) And Adam said: "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.”
(24) Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
(25) And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

23. Genesis 2:18-25
Gen. 2 is basis for all Bible teaching on marriage
Context begins in Gen. 1:20-28:
5th day, God made birds and marine animals [20-23]
6th day, God made land animals and man [24-28]
Woman not made as “afterthought” or “reaction”:
“male and female He created them” [27]
“man” - male and female is “Adam” [“mankind”]
“Be fruitful and multiply” His plan from beginning
Definitions
Marriage

24. Genesis 2:18-25
Gen. 2 is basis for all Bible teaching on marriage
Context begins in Gen. 1:20-28: male & female
Genesis 2:18-20 details why God made woman:
“It is not good that man should be alone”
Even God Himself is not alone
“let Us make man in Our image” [1:26]
Jesus, Holy Spirit with God [cp. 1:2; John 1:1; etc]
Definitions
Marriage

25. Genesis 2:18-25
Gen. 2 is basis for all Bible teaching on marriage
Context begins in Gen. 1:20-28: male & female
Genesis 2:18-20 details why God made woman:
“It is not good that man should be alone”
“I will make [for] him a helper comparable to him”
1 Cor. 11:8-9; “woman [created] for the man”
woman was created to help the man; work to do
woman created comparable to man; same nature
animals not comparable; unable to help [v ]
Definitions
Marriage

26. Genesis 2:18-25
Gen. 2 is basis for all Bible teaching on marriage
Context begins in Gen. 1:20-28: male & female
Genesis 2:18-20 details why God made woman:
“It is not good that man should be alone”
“I will make [for] him a helper comparable to him”
1 Cor. 11:8-9; “woman [created] for the man”
woman was created to help the man; work to do
woman created comparable to man; same nature
Holy Spirit, Jesus as “helpers” [Jn. 14:26; Heb. 13:6]
Definitions
Marriage

27. Genesis 2:18-25
Gen. 2 is basis for all Bible teaching on marriage
Context begins in Gen. 1:20-28: male & female
Genesis 2:18-20 details why God made woman
Genesis 2:21-23 details how God made woman
“the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He
made into a woman.”
Literally, “bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh”
Adam recognized an inseparable relationship
to “put her away” would put away piece of self!
Definitions
Marriage

28. Genesis 2:18-25
Gen. 2 is basis for all Bible teaching on marriage
Context begins in Gen. 1:20-28: male & female
Genesis 2:18-20 details why God made woman
Genesis 2:21-23 details how God made woman
“the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He
made into a woman.”
Literally, “bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh”
Adam recognized an inseparable relationship
“ish” is Heb. for male; Adam called her “ishsha”
Definitions
Marriage

29. Genesis 2:18-25
Gen. 2 is basis for all Bible teaching on marriage
Context begins in Gen. 1:20-28: male & female
Genesis 2:18-20 details why God made woman
Genesis 2:21-23 details how God made woman
Genesis 2:24-25 details God’s plan for marriage:
“Therefore, a man shall…and they shall…” [future]
God’s commentary on Adam’s perception of wife
“He who made them…said…” [Matt. 19:4-5]
expects all others to follow pattern of 1st couple
Definitions
Marriage

30. Genesis 2:18-25
Gen. 2 is basis for all Bible teaching on marriage
Context begins in Gen. 1:20-28: male & female
Genesis 2:18-20 details why God made woman
Genesis 2:21-23 details how God made woman
Genesis 2:24-25 details God’s plan for marriage:
“…leave his father and mother…”
New relationship takes priority over former family
Does not relieve responsibility toward parents
1 Timothy 5:3-4, 16; etc.
Definitions
Marriage

31. Genesis 2:18-25
Gen. 2 is basis for all Bible teaching on marriage
Context begins in Gen. 1:20-28: male & female
Genesis 2:18-20 details why God made woman
Genesis 2:21-23 details how God made woman
Genesis 2:24-25 details God’s plan for marriage:
“…and be joined to his wife…”
This joining is God’s doing, not just the man’s
“what God has joined together…” [Matt. 19:6]
emph. total commitment: “till death do us part”
Definitions
Marriage

32. Genesis 2:18-25
Gen. 2 is basis for all Bible teaching on marriage
Context begins in Gen. 1:20-28: male & female
Genesis 2:18-20 details why God made woman
Genesis 2:21-23 details how God made woman
Genesis 2:24-25 details God’s plan for marriage:
“…and they shall become one flesh.”
1st marriage, physically true; a truth for all to come
God intends all married to be united as Adam, Eve
Definitions
Marriage

33. Genesis 2:18-25
Gen. 2 is basis for all Bible teaching on marriage
Context begins in Gen. 1:20-28: male & female
Genesis 2:18-20 details why God made woman
Genesis 2:21-23 details how God made woman
Genesis 2:24-25 details God’s plan for marriage:
“…and they shall become one flesh.”
1st marriage, physically true; a truth for all to come
speaks also of sexual relationship [*1 Cor. 6:16, 18]
v. 25 shows purity, holiness of 1st couple before sin
Definitions
Marriage

34. Genesis 2:18-25
Gen. 2 is basis for all Bible teaching on marriage
Context begins in Gen. 1:20-28: male & female
Genesis 2:18-20 details why God made woman
Genesis 2:21-23 details how God made woman
Genesis 2:24-25 details God’s plan for marriage
Genesis 2:24 cited as specific marriage basis
Mal. 2:15-16; Matt. 19:4-6; Mk. 10:6-9; Eph. 5:30-32;
1 Cor. 6:16-18
clearly, God’s desire “from the beginning” till now!
Definitions
Marriage