How to have a strong and enduring marriage?
Discover the secrets of having a strong and enduring marriage.
1. God established marriage and grants it His blessing.
Genesis 1:27-28
27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.
2. God created people with an innate need and yearning for the intimate connection that marriage provides.
Genesis 2:18
The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
3. The marriage tie transforms the husband and wife into "one."
Genesis 2:23, 24
The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
4. Marriage is a lifetime commitment
Ecclesiastes 9:9
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.
5. Husbands and wives are expected to respect and love one another.
Ephesians 5:33
However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
6) Similarity of beliefs, values, and goals should bind husbands and wives together.
II Corinthians 6:14
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
Deuteronomy 7:3-4
Genesis 24:3-4
7) In a marriage, husbands and wives are expected to be sexually faithful to one another.
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
Leviticus 18:20
Exodus 20:17
8) The only biblically permissible ground for divorce is adultery.
Matthew 5:32
But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
9) God's loving relationship with His people is the model for a perfect marriage.
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.
Isaiah 54:5
Isaiah 62:5
10) A strong marriage relationship is a precious thing.
1 Peter 4:8
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
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