{"id":83225,"date":"2012-05-26T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T22:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moldovacrestina.md\/cohabitation-marriage-eyes-god"},"modified":"2017-05-27T08:51:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T06:51:30","slug":"cohabitation-marriage-eyes-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moldovacrestina.md\/en\/cohabitation-marriage-eyes-god\/","title":{"rendered":"If a couple cohabitates, are they considered husband and wife in the eyes of God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p>Question:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_center\">\n<p><em>Dear father Vasile, please explain an important issue to me. Two people, a man and a woman who cohabitate but have never been legally married, are they married in the eyes of God?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No, these people are not considered husband and wife in the eyes of God because they are not legally married in the eyes of the state nor the eyes of God. They have not registered a <a href=\"https:\/\/moldovacrestina.md\/en\/what-does-the-bible-say-about-the-marriage-where-the-man-is-younger-than-the-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\">marriage <\/a>with the government nor have they had a <a href=\"https:\/\/moldovacrestina.md\/en\/what-does-the-bible-say-about-the-importance-of-the-wedding-ceremony\/\" target=\"_blank\">religious ceremony<\/a> before God and witnesses. They are cohabitating and they are living in sin (<a href=\"https:\/\/moldovacrestina.md\/en\/difference-between-fornication-adultery\/\" target=\"_blank\">fornication<\/a>). The Bible speaks directly to them in the following passage.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_center\">\n<p>Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled, but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. 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Two people, a man and a woman who cohabitate but have never been legally married, are they married in the eyes of God?\u00a0 No, these people are not considered husband and wife in the eyes of God because they are not legally married in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[7738,7739,7793,7798,7842,7854,8635,9749],"class_list":{"0":"post-83225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-answer-from-the-bible","7":"tag-family","8":"tag-society","9":"tag-advice","10":"tag-people","11":"tag-marriage","12":"tag-sexuality","13":"tag-adultery","14":"tag-repentance","15":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Are you considered husband and wife in the eyes of God if you cohabitate?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Have you ever heard people say that you are considered married in the eyes of God if you cohabitate? 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