LaVergne Church of Christ |
Building Stronger Marriages
We are living in a time in which many marriages are falling
apart. About half of the marriages today will end up in a divorce.
Then there are marriages that do stay together, but only in appearance.
There is no concern, care, or compassion expressed by some husbands
and wives, and then we wonder what is happening to our marriages.
God does not want our marriages to stay together just to be staying
together. He wants our marriages to be something special - to
shine, to stand, to succeed, to be stable and to be strong.
What can we do as husbands and wives to build stronger marriages?
1) Speak and show love for each other (Ephesians 5:25; Titus 2:4)
2) Satisfy each others needs (1 Corinthians 7:3-5)
3) Set one another first (Matthew 19:5)
4) Share our lives together (1 Peter 3:7)
5) Stay loyal to each other (Romans 7:2-3; Matthew 19:6)
6) Strive to help each other to go to Heaven (Hebrews 10:24; Matthew 7:21; 1 Peter 3:1-2)
Ephesians 5:25 - Husbands, love your
wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself
for it.
Titus 2:4 - That they may teach the young women to be
sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
1 Corinthians 7:3-5 - Let the husband render unto the
wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and
likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but
the wife.
Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a
time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and
come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
Matthew 19:5 - And said, For this cause shall a man leave
father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain
shall be one flesh?
1 Peter 3:7 - Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according
to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker
vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that
your prayers be not hindered.
Romans 7:2-3 - For the woman which hath an husband is
bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if
the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another
man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be
dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress,
though she be married to another man.
Matthew 19:6 - Wherefore they are no more twain, but one
flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put
asunder.
Hebrews 10:24 - And let us consider one another to provoke
unto love and to good works.
Matthew 7:21 - Not every one that saith unto me, Lord,
Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth
the will of my Father which is in heaven.
1 Peter 3:1-2 - Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to
your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also
may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
