a gift properly enjoyed only in marriage. By holding fast to the biblical ethic regarding sex, Christians reveal the true splendor and glory of marriage. The third great end of marriage is companionship throughout life, through good and bad, comfort and loss, sickness and health, until death parts the husband and wife. The mystery of completeness is expressed in the statement that the two shall become one. When a man and a woman exchange marriage vows, they become one solitary