Reasons for Marriage

God has reasons for setting up the marriage institution. To discover these reasons, we need to refer back to the Bible. It is the book God himself authored

2Ti 3:16  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

Here are some reasons

1.For Blessing; The Lord did not bless Adam, the first man until the Lord gave the him a woman. The word of God records that God bless them

         

     Gen 1:28  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

The word of God did not record that God bless him but recorded that them. So we can infer that until Adam an Eve were joined together by God, God did not pronounced the blessing. It was after the joining. We can conclude that marriage provoke the blessing of God.  If you marry according to the will of God, definitely there is a blessing for you.

2 . To overcome loneliness: God himself is not a loner. God is a God who walk in group

          Gen 1:26  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Gen 3:22  And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

Gen 11:6  And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

Gen 11:7  Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Isa 6:8  Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

God doesn’t want man to be lonely, therefore God made for him a woman. Marriage was created for companionship and fellowship.

Gen 2:18  And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Mal 2:14  Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

3. For Procreation: It is the desire of God to populate the world. The way God does this is through the institution of marriage. A man and woman, legally married meets together sexually in order to procreate and have children

Mal 2:15  And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Gen 1:27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Gen 1:28  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Malachi 2: 15 tells us that because God seek godly seed (children), Genesis 1:28 say God bless them to be fruitful i.e to bear children

4. For pleasure and to avoid fornication and adultery; The Lord knew quite well that man is a sexual being, and for him to enjoy sexual pleasure without sinning, the marriage must be in place. Within the confine of marriage, sexual pleasure is not sin

1Co 7:2  Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

1Co 7:3  Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

1Co 7:4  The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

1Co 7:5  Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

5. For mutual assistance. . One of the reasons why God created marriage is for assistance.

Ecc 4:8  There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

Ecc 4:9  Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

Ecc 4:10  For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

Ecc 4:11  Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?

Ecc 4:12  And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.