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Scriptures that can help marriage partners to understand God's viewpoints regarding marriage.
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Scriptures for married couples to ponder.
What is the significance of the underlined parts of the following scriptures?
Genesis 1:27-28 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
Genesis 2:21-25 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
Ruth
Esther 2:16-18
And when Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, into his royal palace,
in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh
year of his reign, the king loved Esther more than all the women,
and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins,
so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen
instead of Vashti. Then the king gave a great feast for all his
officials and servants; it was Esthers feast. He also granted a
remission of taxes to the provinces and gave gifts with royal
generosity.Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ( New American Standard
Version)
Two are better than one because they have a good return for their
labor. For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his
companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another
to lift him up. Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep
warm, but how can one be warm alone? And if one can overpower him
who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not
quickly torn apart.Isaiah 54:5 For your Maker is your husband, the
LORD of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your
Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.Malachi 2:14,15
But you say, Why does he not? Because the LORD was witness between
you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless,
though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.John 2:1,2
On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the
mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding
with his disciples.1 Corinthians 7:2 But because of the temptation
to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each
woman her own husband.1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (New International
Version)
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast,
it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not
easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight
in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always
trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But
where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are
tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will
pass away.1 Corinthians 13:13 ( New International Version)
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest
of these is Love.Ephesians 5:23,24,32 For the husband is the head
of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and
is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also
wives should submit in everything to their husbands. This mystery
is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the
church.Ephesians 5:25-29 ( New American Standard Version)
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and
gave Himself up for her; that He might sanctify her, having
cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might
present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or
wrinkle or any such thing; but that she should be holy and
blameless. So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their
own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one
ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as
Christ also does the church.Colossians 3:14 ( New International
Version)
And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all
together in perfect unity Hebrews 13:4 Let marriage be held in
honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God
will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.1 Peter 3:1-6 ( New
American Standard Version)
In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so
that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be
won without a word by the behavior of their wives, as they observe
your chaste and respectful behavior. And let not your adornment be
merely external-- braiding the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or
putting on dresses; but let it be the hidden person of the heart,
with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which
is precious in the sight of God. For in this way in former times
the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves,
being submissive to their own husbands. Thus Sarah obeyed Abraham,
calling him lord, and you have become her children if you do what
is right without being frightened by any fear.
Revelation 19:7-9 Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints. And the angel said to me, Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me, These are the true words of God.