each other throughout their lives. It is a publicly known commitment, with which goes some publicly accepted accountability One text in the Old Testament is referred to several times in the New as the basis for an understanding of what marriage involves. It indicates that the marriage covenant stands, like a kitchen stool, on three legs—if any one of them is missing, there is no marriage. The text is Genesis 2:24, in which after describing the creation of the woman and the joyous delight in which