The main reasons for marriage are:

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Reasons for marriage in Christianity

• The main reasons for marriage are
• To commit yourself to the person you love for a
  lifetime
• To bring up children in a secure and loving home
• To control and direct the sex instinct
• For friendship and companionship through life.

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Marriage vows
I take thee to be my wedded wife To have and to
hold From this day forward For better for
worse For richer for poorer In sickness and in
health To love and to cherish Till death do us
apart According to Gods holy law And thereto I
give thee my troth.
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The church of England
The marriage occasion is regarded as being a
opportunity to celebrate Gods gift of
marriage.The church teaches that marriage should
always be undertaken as a long-life commitment.
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The methodist church
The Methodist church teaches that marriage is a
the life-long union of one man and one woman. The
union of man and woman, for companionship and
mutual support, in equal partnership, and the
procreation and bringing up of children is
believed by the church to be Gods will for all
men and women.