Show me the Scripture!

[ej]

Hello!

It's been a while since I posted in this forum, but I know the regulars will be able to help me out

My Bible study group are having a session on love and marriage...

I'd be very grateful if you could post all the chapters / verses which have inspired you / helped you, and which you feel are essential to a healthy Christian relationship.

Thank you!
Peace in Christ,
Emma

 

[John the Engineer]

Anything between the beginning of Genesis and the end of Revelations

 

[ej]

LoL, thanks John... it's a 2 hour group

 

[John the Engineer]

LoL, thanks John... it's a 2 hour group

You should really mention these things

Well, my relationship is a bit too odd to pick, but in general I would say that it's hard to pick any one set of scriptures that help. Knowing God and his will to forgive is important. How much we are called to forgive those around us we must also learn to forgive the one we are close to. Jesus forgave many people, and he called us to do the same, but often times we forgive and then push the person away because they've lost our trust. However with a significant other we can't push them away because they're the relationship bond we have, and by not trusting them we are destroying the relationship itself. So, we are called to forgive and accept back completely. That's a difficult thing, so in the NT I'd say you really have to learn the forgiveness thing.

As for OT, I'd say just watching how women are treated, not just in general but very carefully. People miss the tree for the forest or however the saying goes. The bible teaches men to subdue women, but if you look at the meaning of subdue, it actually means to bring to fruition and completeness and fullness. Often times women did great moves of faith, and so in a relationship the man must lead and be the covering, but they must also learn to "subdue" their significant other and help bring them to what the Lord has for them. And the woman must realize that her role is to be supported and covered by this guy, and come under that covering and blessing. This doesn't mean being some maid servant but it does mean that you take that covering over you and walk in it.

Hope that all makes sense. No scriptures in particular I know, but general ideas.

 

[tulc]

This is for the guys:

Ephesians 5
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
tulc(who loves his wife of 28 years more every day!)

 

[DaveKerwin]

Emma, here are a few that I have learned from:

Song of Solomon 2:7
Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you
by the gazelles and by the does of the field:
Do not arouse or awaken love
until it so desires.

Proverbs 4:23
Above all else, guard your heart,
for it is the wellspring of life.

1 Corinthians 6:18-20
Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

John 14:15
"If you love me, you will obey what I command.




The point of these: Don't awaken love until it is the right time, and be sure to guard your heart. Flee from any kind of sexual sin. Do all of this out of your love for Christ.

 

[ej]

Thank you tulc and Dave

Keep them coming... I have till next Thursday!

 

[DaveKerwin]

Are we doing your assignment for you!!??

 

[pmarquette]

1Cr 7:4 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.

we as married couples should not refuse one another , affection , sex ...
which opens the door to temptation , trials , lust ...

 

[ej]

Are we doing your assignment for you!!??

LoL

The regular members of this forum were the first people in my mind when we were set the topic

 

[DaveKerwin]

LoL

The regular members of this forum were the first people in my mind when we were set the topic

I can picture you in a cell group saying:
"I found all these verses for us, I rule"

The four verses I posted were geared toward unmarried dating people, is that the target audience?

 

[ej]

4 married people, 4 dating people.
Equal boys and girls.


And yes - the plan is that I bask in all the glory