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This week's question:

God created man and woman to leave their father and mother and be joined together and become one flesh (Genesis 2:24). Not only is this marriage honorable (I Corinthians 11:11-12) but it is a good thing and finds favor with God (Proverbs 18:22). Husband and wife are to love one another until death parts them just as Christ loved the church. (Ephesians 5:25-33 & 1 Corinthians 7:39).

That brings us back to our question, "Could the apostle's marry?". Did God set up laws preventing the apostles from having a wife? We begin our search to our answer to our question by seeing Paul, an apostle (1 Corinthians 9:1), encouraging the unmarried to remain as he is, unmarried (1 Corinthians 7:6-8), because of the stress of the times (1 Corinthians 7:26). Interestingly enough, Paul says,

I Corinthians 6:12 All things are lawful for me, but not all are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.

He continues by saying that food is for the stomach but indeed but the body is not for immorality, so we can misuse the food that God provides for our body by prostituting our body to sin (1 Corinthians 6:13-16). But we who have joined with Christ are to flee immorality just as we are to flee from fornication by "each man having his wife and each woman having her own husband. The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband." (1 Corinthians 7:2-3). Therefore, not only is it lawful for Paul to marry, but is advisable to those who cannot control their lustful desires as it is better to marry than to burn with passion (1 Corinthians 7:9). So there is the answer to our question as it was lawful for the apostles to marry.

Also, let us not forget that while Jesus walked this earth he had the opportunity and did heal a fever of the mother-in-law of one Simon Peter, a disciple of the Lord who also became an apostle of Our Lord (Luke 4:38-39). Paul once again talks about the liberties that the apostles have as he explains to the brethren at Corinth,

1 Corinthians 9:5 Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas (Simon Peter)?

Let us not be deceived into believing that men and women today are not permitted to marry by any law of God. Just as Paul stated, because of the passion that often rises, let the woman take a husband or man take a wife and fulfill the responsibility to each by not depriving one another and loving each other just as Jesus loved the church (Ephesians 5:28-29).