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When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
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"Another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I can't come.'
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"If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.
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Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple.
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For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
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He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,
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who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life."
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But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;
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and those who weep, as though they didn't weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn't rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn't possess;
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and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
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but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.
Il y a cependant une gradation : le premier se croit sous la nécessité absolue de refuser ; le second dit simplement qu'il part pour éprouver ses bœufs ; le troisième ne cherche pas même une excuse, il se sent dispensé par l'importance de ce qui le retient (son mariage), et il se contente de répondre : Je ne puis.
Tous les motifs allégués sont honnêtes, légitimes, plausibles aux yeux des hommes : ce sont les possessions, les affaires, les affections de famille. Mais comme il n'y a aucune incompatibilité entre ces choses-là et la communion avec Dieu, elles ne sont, au fond, que de vains prétextes. Le vrai obstacle est ailleurs, dans le cœur de l'homme.