Stand 4 Marriage: Scriptures

Scriptures

Proverbs 18:22 (Contemporary English Version)

A man's greatest treasure is his wife-- she is a gift from the LORD.

Genesis 2:18-24 (New King James Version)

18) And the LORD God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” 19) Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. 20) So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.
21) And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22) Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.
23) And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” 24) Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Colossians 3:18-19 (New Living Translation)

18) Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting for those who belong to the Lord.
19) Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly.

Ephesians 5:21-33(New Living Translation)

21) And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22) For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23) For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church. 24) As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.

25) For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her 26) to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. 27) He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. 28) In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. 29) No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church. 30) And we are members of his body.

31) As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.” 32) This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. 33) So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Ecclesiastes 9:9 (New International Version)

Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun— all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.

1 Corinthians 7: 10-11 (The Message)

And if you are married, stay married. This is the Master's command, not mine. If a wife should leave her husband, she must either remain single or else come back and make things right with him. And a husband has no right to get rid of his wife.

Matthew 5:31-32 (Today's New International Version)

31) "It has been said, 'Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.' 32) But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.

Hebrews 13:4 (New Life Version)

Marriage should be respected by everyone. God will punish those who do sex sins and are not faithful in marriage.

1 Corinthians 7: 1-7 (The Message)

1) Now, getting down to the questions you asked in your letter to me. First, Is it a good thing to have sexual relations? 2-6) Certainly—but only within a certain context. It's good for a man to have a wife, and for a woman to have a husband. Sexual drives are strong, but marriage is strong enough to contain them and provide for a balanced and fulfilling sexual life in a world of sexual disorder. The marriage bed must be a place of mutuality—the husband seeking to satisfy his wife, the wife seeking to satisfy her husband. Marriage is not a place to "stand up for your rights." Marriage is a decision to serve the other, whether in bed or out. Abstaining from sex is permissible for a period of time if you both agree to it, and if it's for the purposes of prayer and fasting—but only for such times. Then come back together again. Satan has an ingenious way of tempting us when we least expect it. I'm not, understand, commanding these periods of abstinence—only providing my best counsel if you should choose them. 7) Sometimes I wish everyone were single like me—a simpler life in many ways! But celibacy is not for everyone any more than marriage is. God gives the gift of the single life to some, the gift of the married life to others.