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1Cor.7:28 But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

Oppression in our flesh from marriage what is Paul saying when the world tells us all these wonderful stories of love and happiness ever after where nothing else matters until we find someone? Paul states a truth of truth for those in Christ Jesus, the ideas the world has about marriage is not God's arrangement of marriage, nor is it for the body of Christ Jesus, what does this mean? It means for a body member of Christ Jesus, when God tells us we are one flesh with our mate that exactly what He means, and He treats us as such, as one person, but having two different wills trying to be one!

Matt.5:5 Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.{or, land. Psalm 37:11}

In other words, now we have two people as one flesh before the Lord, so we have twice as much tribulation in our flesh. Not only do we have to worry about our conduct, and spiritual life, but now we are one with another person and their life becomes our life. But still we must walk in the law of love, and give our mate all the same rights the love of God gives us, if we overstep ourselves in this manner we will suffer putting too death the Spirit that indwelling both person as one flesh. Now we have double trouble, its one thing to correct ourselves, but quite another in correcting our mate having their own will.

Proverbs 12:18 There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Moreover, by lack of love, we have killed the Spirit within us, in our bad judgment, or fleshly act out of anger with our mate; pride comes up because both suffer lost of Holy Spirit as one before God. Satan now can divide between our one flesh by pride, anger, through the works of the flesh. Subsequently, until peace is made with each other in forgiveness neither can they walk as one in Spirit before God. This oppression can increase when this type of separation becomes a competition, where couples fight as too which one is more spiritual, or righteous, before God; favored as it were? However, both will suffer lack of God's Holy Spirit as one person not indepentent as our pride imagine we stand before God!

Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

God does not pervert justice and He certainly is not partial if you are married both stand as one before God. If a mate is set upon changing the other, tribulation, and much oppression is going to occur simply because the law of love does not allow for such conduct, The law of love does not allow us too take another person free will, but instead to cherish, love, and feed them as our own body, treating each others as we are treated by God in Christ Jesus.

Proverbs 21:23 Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

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