Tag: marriage
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A Word to Spouses
Ephesians 5:22 “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.” Ephesians 5:25 “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her” If you would like an example of how this world’s thinking is antithetical to the mind of God, bring up Ephesians 5:22 in a group of non-Christians. And if…
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Boomerangs
Ephesians 5:28 “He who loves his wife loves himself.” There are some things in the Bible that are so easy to pass over. If you are a Christian, you’ve likely read the passage above many times. I know I have. But have we really stopped to think about it?! Has it ever caused us to…
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Definitions
Hebrews 13:1-4 “Let brotherly love continue . . .Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.” I’m sure you’ve seen the signs that have popped up over the last few years. I’ve seen them primarily in people’s front yards, in front…
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Jealousy
Psalm 48:14 “This is God, our God forever and ever.” The Bible tells us that God is a jealous God. In fact, one of His names is Jealous (Exodus 34:14). Doesn’t that seem strange? Usually, we think of jealousy in a negative sense. One of the dictionary definitions of this word is “feeling or showing…
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Cherish
Ephesians 5:29-30 “He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of His body.” Sometimes when I read the Scriptures, I get hit between the eyes. Actually, I probably should get hit like this every time I…
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Caring for the Body
1 Corinthians 12:21-27 “The eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I have no need of you,’ nor again the head to the feet, ‘I have no need of you.’ On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we…
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Love: Some of the “How Tos”
Titus 2:3-4 “Older women likewise are to . . . train the young women to love their husbands and children . . .” Ephesians 6:25 “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.” One of the truths about what God has told us in His Word is that all…
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Relationships
Colossians 3:18-24 “Wives . . . Husbands . . . Children . . . Fathers . . . Bondservants . . . You are serving the Lord Christ.” How wonderful would be our interpersonal relationships if we took the words of Colossians 3 above to heart. If we call ourselves followers of Christ, our relationships…
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The knowledge that is eternal life
John 17:3 “And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” How is it that knowing God the Father and Jesus, God’s son, is the same as eternal life, for that’s what Jesus claimed in the verse above? How is it that to know any being is equivalent…
To Encourage You 