34And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
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And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 27-38)This discourse with the Sadducees we had before, just as it is here, only that the description Christ gives of the future state is somewhat more full and large here. Observe here, I. In every age there have been men of corrupt minds, that have endeavoured to subvert the fundamental principles of revealed religion. As there are deists now, who call themselves free -thinkers, but are really false -t…
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