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Reflecting on over 40 years of matrimony, John Piper exalts the biblical meaning of marriage over its emotion, exhorting couples to keep their covenant as a display of Christ’s covenant-keeping love for the church. He aims to lift the church’s low view of marriage to something infinitely greater, namely, a vision of Jesus’ unswerving allegiance to and affection for his bride. This Momentary...

would only relate to the pre-Fall situation, namely, the perfection of their bodies. Third, verse 24 (holding fast in a one-flesh union) creates the relationship where verse 25 (naked and not ashamed) can happen. And the emphasis falls there on the covenant commitment in verse 24: These two are holding fast to each other in a new one-flesh union that is not an experiment. It’s a new kind of lasting union rooted in a covenant commitment. That is what creates the context for a shame-free marriage—not
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