Don't divorce your partner. You say, well, why would two Christians want to divorce?

Well, in Corinth, you see, they were saying, well,

celibacy is the only way to go. Once you become a Christian, you've got to drop all the physical part

and you've got to devote yourself to Christ. We will now divorce and separate and give ourselves a crisis from getting.

Don't divorce. There is no divorce tolerated among Christians.

Welcome to Grace To You with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

What does Scripture say about whom you should marry or not marry?

What about if you're already married, but you want out?

What does God's words say about that? John MacArthur helps answer those questions today in his series titled

Guidelines for Singleness and Marriage. Here on Grace To You.

Today, John focuses on the Divine Guidelines for Marriage. A lesson to help you understand how your marriage,

even if your spouse is an unbeliever, your marriage can honor God and help lead others to salvation.

And now, if you have your Bible, turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 7, and here is John MacArthur.

Divine Guidelines for Marriage. Divine Guidelines for Marriage.

1 Corinthians 7, 8 to 16. And you know what's difficult in our world, I think, to maintain a marriage,

to maintain any kind of a lasting relationship.

And unfortunately, what we experience is not a historical phenomenon that is new.

It's something that has always been around. And if you go to 1 Corinthians chapter 7,

you'll find that there was a terrible problem existing in Corinth and it dealt with the whole area of marriage.

And that is the problem to which Paul speaks in the 7th chapter.

The Corinthians didn't really know what they should do in terms of marriage, or at least they weren't willing to admit what they should do

and pose some questions to Paul about it.

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