However, when it comes to marriage God's word and man's law doesn't always line up. When there is a question of sin in the marriage, go to God's word. When there is a question of legal rights, go to the law or man's court. If marriage recognition is desired from city, state, or government, legal marriage is then required in most cases. As Christians, God's word should take priority over man's law.
Second criteria calls for the man to leave father and mother.
Fifth criteria, came with the law prohibiting marriage among kinfolk. Legal or not, these criteria equal marriage in the eyes of God, for marriage is a physical establishment. However, we determine as Christians that marriage begins according to the legal standard. A man was either betrothed to a woman or a husband to a woman. This is why virginity is focused on women rather than men in the Bible, because when a man has a virgin, fornication and adultery are less likely the case.