Marriage / Divorce
New
Living Translation
God
Blesses Marriage
- Genesis 2:18, 21-2418 And the Lord God said, “It is not good for
the man to be alone. I will make a companion who will help him.” 21 So the Lord God caused Adam to fall into
a deep sleep. He took one of Adam’s ribs and closed up the place from
which he had taken it. 22 Then the Lord God made
a woman from the rib and brought her to Adam.23 “At last!” Adam exclaimed.
“She is part of my own flesh and bone! She will be called ‘woman,’ because
she was taken out of a man.” 24 This explains why a man leaves his father and mother
and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
2. Matthew 19:4-6 4 “Haven’t you read the Scriptures?” Jesus replied. “They record that from the beginning ‘God made them male and
female.’ 5 And
he said, ‘This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to
his wife, and the two are united into one.’ 6 Since they are no longer two but one, let no one separate them, for God has joined them together.”
3. Hebrews 13:4 4 Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one
another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who
commit adultery.
4. Ephesians
5:21-33 21 And further, you will submit to one another out of
reverence for Christ. 22 You wives will submit to your husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is
the head of his body, the church; he gave his life to be her Savior. 24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives must
submit to your husbands in everything. And you husbands must love your wives with the same love
Christ showed the church. He gave up his life for her 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and
God’s word. 27 He did this to
present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any
other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. 28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their
wives as they love their own bodies. For a man is actually loving himself when
he loves his wife. 29 No one hates
his own body but lovingly cares for it, just as Christ cares for his body,
which is the church. 30 And we are his body. 31 As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father
and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.” 32 This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration
of the way Christ and the church are one. 33 So again I say, each man
must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
5. Colossians
3:18-19 18 You wives must submit to your
husbands, as is fitting for those who belong to the Lord. 19 And you husbands must love your wives and never
treat them harshly.
Unequal Yoke:
6. II
Corinthians 6:14 14 Don’t team up with those who are unbelievers. How
can goodness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness?
7. I Corinthians 6:9-10 9 Don’t you know that those who do wrong will have no share in the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, who are idol worshipers, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals, 10 thieves, greedy people, drunkards, abusers, and swindlers—none of these will have a share in the Kingdom of God.
(Pastors Note: God can forgive any sin, but you must turn
to God for forgiveness and turn away from your sinful sexual habits.)
Chapter on Marriage and Singles:
8. I Corinthians
7th chapter
Love:
9. I Corinthians
6th chapter “Show you love your spouse in words and actions.”
Divorce:
10. Matthew
19:8-9 8 Jesus replied, “Moses
permitted divorce as a concession to your hard-hearted wickedness, but it was
not what God had originally intended. 9 And I tell you this, a man who divorces
his wife and marries another commits adultery—unless
his wife has been unfaithful.”
Two reasons for divorce: hard hearts and
unfaithfulness (affair). You can choose
to forgive your spouse and save the marriage.
God hates divorce:
11. Malachi
2:15-16 15 Didn’t the Lord make you one
with your wife? In body and spirit you are his. And what does he want? Godly
children from your union. So guard yourself; remain loyal to the wife of your
youth. 16 “For I hate divorce!” says the Lord,
the God of Israel. “It is as cruel as putting on a victim’s bloodstained coat,”
says the Lord Almighty. “So guard
yourself; always remain loyal (faithful) to your wife.
God
will forgive divorce, but we and the children suffer in many ways as the
result of divorce.
