A Fan of mine sent in this question and wants me to answer him with Bible references. And I am throwing it to the whole world. Please is it lawful for someone to get married to his or her cousin. He is in a dilemma, please let us help him out.
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Calvary greetings to you and your family in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I’m a great fan of you. I love what you do and I pray for more grace of God in your life and the life of your family. Please I have a question is it Lawful for someone to get married to his or her cousin. The relationship is very distant (the grandfather of the Woman is a younger brother to the man’s Grandmother and the father of the man is a cousin to the father of the woman i.e 1st cousin While the children of the first cousin are the once that intend to get married) please I really need a clear answer to this question because there are examples of people that were married from their family. Eleazar’s daughters each married first cousins, as they were instructed ( 1 Chronicles 23:22).
See below
Between parents and children –Leviticus 18:7-8
Between stepparents and stepchildren- Leviticus 18:8, 17
With your paternal or maternal aunt-Leviticus 18:12-13
With your uncle or aunt –Leviticus 18:14
Between brother and sister and half-brother and half-sister-Leviticus 18:9
Between stepbrothers and stepsisters-Leviticus 18:11
With your daughter-in-law –Leviticus 18:15
With your sister-in-law –Leviticus 18:16
With your granddaughter –Leviticus 18:10
With your step-granddaughter –Leviticus 18:17
However, it’s important to remember that many laws do condemn this type of marriage and Christians are commanded to “Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men” (1 Peter 2:13-15, See also Romans 13:1-2). Please give biblical evidence of your answer.
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