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Latter-day Saints believe marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God and that it does not have to end at death. When a couple is sealed in a temple by priesthood authority, they make covenants with God and each other, and their family can be together forever. “Till death do us part” is replaced with “for time and all eternity.” Families are at the center of God’s plan.
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And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
What is bound on earth by proper authority “shall be bound in heaven.” Latter-day Saints believe this includes marriage.
4And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 6Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
“What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”
Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
“Neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.”
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Husbands and wives are “heirs together of the grace of life.”
I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
“Whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever.” A marriage God performs through His authority can last forever.
18And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. 24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
“It is not good that the man should be alone.” Marriage was part of God’s plan from the beginning, before death entered the world.
25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Husbands are to love their wives as Christ loved the Church.
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Elijah will turn the hearts of fathers and children to each other. Families are meant to be bound together.
23The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him, 24Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. 25Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother: 26Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh. 27And last of all the woman died also. 28Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her. 29Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. 30For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
The Sadducees, who did not believe in the resurrection, ask about a woman married to seven brothers. Jesus says in the resurrection people “neither marry, nor are given in marriage.” Latter-day Saints understand this to mean that marriages are not performed after the resurrection, so they must be sealed in this life by proper authority.
6And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Parents are to teach God’s words diligently to their children at home.
Most Christians believe marriage is a sacred covenant for this life that ends at death, and they read Matthew 22:30 as teaching there is no marriage in heaven. Many still look forward to recognizing and loving their family in heaven. The idea of marriages sealed for eternity is unique to Latter-day Saints.
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