Who Provides the Cattle?

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Often before marriage a sister is engaged in some kind of employment. However, her continued working at a full—time job after marriage is not according to normal Christianity.
While there are times when a wife may continue for a time in some sort of outside employment, it is not according to God's order that marriage be based on the necessity of the wife to spend her life in full-time employment outside the home. Under normal circumstances, what Paul says in 1 Tim. 5:1414I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. (1 Timothy 5:14) should characterize the responsibility for providing cattle in a romance-1 will that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house". It is the husband who is warned that he as a believer, is responsible to "provide for...his own house" (1 Tim. 5:8).
Remember beloved young people, its very good training as well as an excellent gauge of character for a young man to bear the financial burden of a courtship, just as he will be responsible to bear that same burden in a marriage union.