While SCRIPTURE commends marriage as ordained of God and good (1 Tim. 4:3-5), it also COMMENDS SINGLENESS AS A LIFE OF EXTRAORDINARY PURPOSE AND CONTRIBUTION, never speaking of any fundamental loss but only extolling the potential gain of the single life devoted to God (1 Cor. 7:25-35). Since human marriage is the shadow of the reality of the union of Christ and the church (Eph. 5:32), no believing single will miss out on the reality of marriage even if God calls him or her to live without the shadow.
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| — | Bruce Ware, in Biblical Foundations for Manhood and Womanhood, p. 90. |
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