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Eternal marriage, as a union of man and woman based on the indwelling relationship with Christ to which the Gospel brings true believers, must be a union of both partners in Christ; and it can be sustain rightfully only as long as both man and woman are alive in Christ. "Very, verily, I say unto you," the Lord declared in explaining the status and glory to be achieved in this exalting union, "except ye abide my law ye cannot attain to this glory. For strait is the gate, and narrow the way that leadeth unto the exaltation and continuation of the lives, and few there by that find it, because ye receive me not in the world neither do ye know me. But if ye receive me in the world, then shall ye know me, and, shall receive your exaltation; that where I am ye shall be also."