by Eric Payne
No matter how much the debate rages on as to the authenticity, interpretation and authorship of the Bible there is no denying that it is a book packed with advice and warnings about love and relationships. Here are just a few:
It’s better to live alone in the corner of an attic than with a quarrelsome wife in a lovely home.
Proverbs 21:9 (NLT)Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife.
Proverbs 21:19 (NIV)A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.
Proverbs 12:4 (NIV)The man who finds a wife finds a good find; she is a blessing to him from the Lord.
Proverbs 18:22 (NIV)A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.
1 Corinthians 11:7 (NIV)But if any man does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
1 Timothy 5:8 (NASB)…husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:28 (NIV)
In my humble opinion all of the commandments, “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and most other biblical directives about how to live life as a man or woman with a family can be summed up in this one rule of law: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. [Romans 13:9-10 (NIV)]
You don’t have to be a believer to know love, true acts of love will answer and cure most ills that poison and destroy relationships and marriages. And if the comments sections of most major news and gossip sites isn’t proof enough, hate accomplishes nothing except to breed destruction and division and tragic misunderstandings. Ultimately it leads to more hatred.
For those of you reading here who count yourselves as “believers,” how many acknowledge and claim to know the beauty and benefits of spreading love and are quick to tell anyone who will listen that being quick to love always trumps being quick to anger. But when put to the test, acting out of love rather than anger is often an afterthought? (Am I raising my hand by myself?)
This isn’t about passing judgment. This is about getting it right.
What Bible verses do you refer to for guidance in your continual walk down the path of love and marriage? If not the Bible, then what book(s) do you go to for advice?
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“In this way husbands ought to be loving their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself, for no man ever hated his own flesh; but he feeds and cherishes it, as the Christ also does the congregation… “For this reason a man will leave [his] father and [his] mother and he will stick to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.†…let each one of YOU individually so love his wife as he does himself; on the other hand, the wife should have deep respect for her husband. ” Ephesians 5:28-33″YOU husbands, continue dwelling in like manner with them according to knowledge, assigning them honor as to a weaker vessel, the feminine one, since YOU are also heirs with them of the undeserved favor of life, in order for YOUR prayers not to be hindered.’~1 Peter 3:7″See life with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life that He has given you under the sun…”~Eccleiastes 9:9
i agree 100 love ur wife the way u love urself thats y chrisian folks should pray and ask to find the one they want to spend the rest of their lives with if the marriage fails that does not god has failed
These two–
“Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.” (Philippians 2:3,4)
“So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.” (James 1:19)
in the voice of Eddie Griffith,” reading is FUN TA MENTAL”
E, no matter what the issue is – marriage or any other aspect of life: Proverbs 14:12, “There is a way that seems right to man, that will lead to death.” Subsequently this is why I do not “Lean onto my understanding.”
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We somehow missed the REAL basic truth that underlies success or failure… DO NOT BE UNEQUALLY YOKED. Love mixed in with 2 people who are not equals still ends in disaster for way to many people. Love without compatibility is not going to work. And love is an ACTIVE verb…the “in love” mushy feelings that people call love is lust and emotional attachment…one can LOVE anyone.
Love (K)is patient, love is kind and (L)is not jealous; love does not brag and is not (M)arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it (N)does not seek its own, is not provoked, (O)does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 (P)does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but (Q)rejoices with the truth; 7 [b](R)bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of [c](S)prophecy, they will be done away; if there are (T)tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. 9 For we (U)know in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I [d]became a man, I did away with childish things. 12 For now we (V)see in a mirror [e]dimly, but then (W)face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also (X)have been fully known. 13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the [f]greatest of these is (Y)love.
That is what we learned during premarital counseling and I refer back to it. Lament on it.
I have a series of books from written by a Dr. David Stevens who’s a pastor and has been married for 40 years that i reference frequently. They aren’t “preachy” and give just the right balance of real life and the Word. He even started a blog where you can ask anonymous questions https://soundmarriages.tumblr.com/ you can get the website from there too. God Bless!
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