{
  "title": "Marriage Treated As Personal Fulfillment Rather Than Covenant",
  "slug": "marriage-treated-as-personal-fulfillment-rather-than-covenant",
  "url": "/modern-traditions-of-men/marriage-treated-as-personal-fulfillment-rather-than-covenant/",
  "category": "Family and Discipleship",
  "severity": 3,
  "severity_label": "Level 3 - Serious doctrinal or moral error",
  "summary": "Marriage includes comfort and companionship, but Scripture presents it as covenantal, God-witnessed, sexually faithful, sacrificial, and ordered toward holiness.",
  "primary_scriptures": [
    "Gen 2:24",
    "Mal 2:14-16",
    "Matt 19:3-9",
    "Eph 5:22-33",
    "Heb 13:4"
  ],
  "key_terms": "berit [covenant]; daveq [cling, hold fast]; mysterion [mystery]; porneia [sexual immorality]",
  "related_topics": [
    "divorce-treated-as-healing-without-biblical-examination",
    "fathers-excused-from-spiritual-leadership",
    "mothers-demeaned-for-home-based-faithfulness",
    "we-put-our-parents-grandparents-in-old-age-homes"
  ],
  "tier": "Modern Traditions of Men",
  "translation_links": "NET Bible local reader links are embedded in the HTML page."
}