![]() In such a case, the man was shamed publicly, punished (and later rabbinical writings suggest this punishment was in the form of lashes), fined 100 shekels of. And also I think I have the Spirit of God. First, consider that God had also established laws (Deuteronomy 22:1319) to deal with a man who lied about his wife’s virginity (because he hates her) after the wedding night. If the husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord.īut in my opinion is happier (more blessed and to be envied) if she does not remarry. So also then, he who gives his virgin (his daughter) in marriage does well, and he who does not give in marriage does better.Ī wife is bound to her husband by law as long as he lives. Now I say this for your own welfare and profit, not to put restraint upon you, but to promote what is seemly and in good order and to secure your undistracted and undivided devotion to the Lord.īut if any man thinks that he is not acting properly toward and in regard to his virgin, in case she is passing the bloom of her youth and if there is need for it, let him do what to him seems right he does not sin let them marry.īut whoever is firmly established in his heart, not being forced by necessity but having control over his own will and desire, and has resolved this in his heart to keep his own virginity, he is doing well. And the unmarried woman or girl is concerned and anxious about the matters of the Lord, how to be wholly separated and set apart in body and spirit but the married woman has her cares in earthly affairs–how she may please her husband. ![]() The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord–how he may please the Lord īut the married man is anxious about worldly matters–how he may please his wife–Īnd he is drawn in diverging directions. My desire is to have you free from all anxiety and distressing care.
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