1. R. Paul Stevens, Married for Good (Downers Grove, Illinois, 1985), p.17.
 2. Ibid., p.20.
 3. Quoted in E. A. Griffin, The Mind Changers (Wheaton, Illinosis, 1983), p.32.
 4. Elizabeth Achtemeier, The Committed Marriage (Philadelphia, Pennsylvinia, 1976), p.41.
 5. “The Redbook Report on Premarital and Extramarital Sex,” Redbook Magazine (October 1975):38.
 6. Emphasis supplied.
 7. Ellen G. White, The Adventist Home (Mountain View, California, 1951), p.338.
 8. Accoding to the National Center for Health Statistics in 1986 there were in the United States 2,400,000 marriages and 1,159,000 divorces (Monthly Vital Statistics, vol. 35, n. 13 (August 1987): 3. This means that the divorce rate is slightly less than 50 percent. Considering, however, that some divorce more than once, the actual divorce rate is somewhat lower.
 9. Ellen G. White, The Adventist Home, p.345.
 10. David Phypers, Christian Marriage in Crisis (Bromley, Kent, England, 1986), p.59.
 11. Thomas N. Hart, Living Happily Ever After (New York, 1979), p.31.
 12. Gordon Wenham, “Grace and Law in the Old Testament,” in Bruce Kaye and Gordon Wenham, eds., Law, Morality and the Bible (Downers Grove, Illinois, 1978), p.17.
 13. R. Paul Stevens, Married for Good, pp.87-88.
 14. Ibid, p.86. 15.
 15. Ibid., p.88-94. (77.1)