WCF 24.1
Marriage is to be between one man and one woman: neither is it lawful for any man to have more than one wife, nor for any woman to have more than one husband at the same time. 1
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Confession Library / Westminster Confession of Faith
On Marriage And Divorce
6 paragraphs
WCF 24.2
Marriage was ordained for the mutual help of husband and wife; 1 for the increase of mankind with a legitimate issue, and of the Church with an holy seed; 2 and for preventing of uncleanness. 3
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WCF 24.3
It is lawful for all sorts of people to marry who are able with judgment to give their consent. 1 Yet it is the duty of Christians to marry only in the Lord. 2 And therefore, such as profess the true reformed religion should not marry with infidels, Papists, or other idolaters: n…
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WCF 24.4
Marriage ought not to be within the degrees of consanguinity or affinity forbidden in the Word; 1 nor can such incestuous marriages ever be made lawful by any law of man, or consent of parties, so as those persons may live together as man and wife. 2 The man may not marry any of…
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WCF 24.5
Adultery or fornication, committed after a contract, being detected before marriage, giveth just occasion to the innocent party to dissolve that contract. 1 In the case of adultery after marriage, it is lawful for the innocent party to sue out a divorce, 2 and after the divorce t…
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WCF 24.6
Although the corruption of man be such as is apt to study arguments, unduly to put asunder those whom God hath joined together in marriage; yet nothing but adultery, or such wilful desertion as can no way be remedied by the Church or civil magistrate, is cause sufficient of disso…
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