18 Regarding their 50 years of happy married life, Ray says, “We have never had a problem we could not overcome, because we kept Jehovah as part of our ‘threefold cord.’”
Certain practices connected with the bride-price could create special problems for a young man who is going to marry a spiritual sister whose parents are not Christians.
For example, appointed elders in a certain congregation found it necessary to give one young married woman kind but firm Scriptural counsel against associating with a worldly man.
A married elder must be “free from accusation, a husband of one wife, having believing children that [are] not under a charge of debauchery nor unruly.”