mmm no one posted the scriptures about marriage yet. interesting.....
well I'll post them real quick. don't know how coherent I'll be, stayed up till midnight modifying a dress for my daughter's preschool graduation. for some reason white little girl dress aren't "in season" right now. lol what you can do with curtains and an old dress. lol...yep need sleep, rambling........what was I doing? ......marriage scriptures
Verses to help you see what a Godly marriage should be based upon:
Ephesians 5
[h=3][/h][SUP]22 [/SUP]Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. [SUP]23 [/SUP]For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. [SUP]24 [/SUP]Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so
let the wives
be to their own husbands in everything.
[SUP]25 [/SUP]Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, [SUP]26 [/SUP]that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, [SUP]27 [/SUP]that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. [SUP]28 [/SUP]So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. [SUP]29 [/SUP]For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord
does the church. [SUP]30 [/SUP]For we are members of His body,[SUP][
d][/SUP] of His flesh and of His bones. [SUP]31 [/SUP]“For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”[SUP][
e][/SUP] [SUP]32 [/SUP]This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. [SUP]33 [/SUP]Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife
see that she respects
her husband.
[h=3]1 Corinthians 7[/h]New King James Version (NKJV)
[h=3]Principles of Marriage[/h]7 Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me:
It is good for a man not to touch a woman. [SUP]2 [/SUP]Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. [SUP]3 [/SUP]Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. [SUP]4 [/SUP]The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband
does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife
does. [SUP]5 [/SUP]Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. [SUP]6 [/SUP]But I say this as a concession, not as a commandment. [SUP]7 [/SUP]For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am; [SUP]9 [/SUP]but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn
with passion.
[h=3]Keep Your Marriage Vows[/h][SUP]10 [/SUP]Now to the married I command,
yet not I but the Lord: A wife is not to depart from
her husband. [SUP]11 [/SUP]But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to
her husband. And a husband is not to divorce
his wife.
[SUP]12 [/SUP]But to the rest I, not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her. [SUP]13 [/SUP]And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is willing to live with her, let her not divorce him. [SUP]14 [/SUP]For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. [SUP]15 [/SUP]But if the unbeliever departs, let him depart; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such
cases. But God has called us to peace. [SUP]16 [/SUP]For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save
your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save
your wife?
[h=3]Live as You Are Called[/h][SUP]17 [/SUP]But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the churches. [SUP]18 [/SUP]Was anyone called while circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised. [SUP]19 [/SUP]Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God
is what matters. [SUP]20 [/SUP]Let each one remain in the same calling in which he was called. [SUP]21 [/SUP]Were you called
while a slave? Do not be concerned about it; but if you can be made free, rather use
it. [SUP]22 [/SUP]For he who is called in the Lord
while a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called
while free is Christ’s slave. [SUP]23 [/SUP]You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men. [SUP]24 [/SUP]Brethren, let each one remain with God in that
state in which he was called.
[h=3]To the Unmarried and Widows[/h][SUP]25 [/SUP]Now concerning virgins: I have no commandment from the Lord; yet I give judgment as one whom the Lord in His mercy has made trustworthy. [SUP]26 [/SUP]I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present distress—that
it is good for a man to remain as he is: [SUP]27 [/SUP]Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife. [SUP]28 [/SUP]But even if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such will have trouble in the flesh, but I would spare you.
[SUP]29 [/SUP]But this I say, brethren, the time
is short, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none, [SUP]30 [/SUP]those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess, [SUP]31 [/SUP]and those who use this world as not misusing
it. For the form of this world is passing away.
[SUP]32 [/SUP]But I want you to be without care. He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord—how he may please the Lord. [SUP]33 [/SUP]But he who is married cares about the things of the world—how he may please
his wife. [SUP]34 [/SUP]There is[SUP][
a][/SUP] a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please
her husband. [SUP]35 [/SUP]And this I say for your own profit, not that I may put a leash on you, but for what is proper, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction.
[SUP]36 [/SUP]But if any man thinks he is behaving improperly toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of youth, and thus it must be, let him do what he wishes. He does not sin; let them marry. [SUP]37 [/SUP]Nevertheless he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so determined in his heart that he will keep his virgin,[SUP][
b][/SUP] does well. [SUP]38 [/SUP]So then he who gives
her[SUP][
c][/SUP] in marriage does well, but he who does not give
her in marriage does better.
[SUP]39 [/SUP]A wife is bound by law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord. [SUP]40 [/SUP]But she is happier if she remains as she is, according to my judgment—and I think I also have the Spirit of God.
[h=3]1 Peter 3[/h]New King James Version (NKJV)
[h=3]Submission to Husbands[/h]3 Wives, likewise,
be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives, [SUP]2 [/SUP]when they observe your chaste conduct
accompanied by fear. [SUP]3 [/SUP]Do not let your adornment be
merely outward—arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on
fine apparel— [SUP]4 [/SUP]rather
let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible
beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God. [SUP]5 [/SUP]For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands, [SUP]6 [/SUP]as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daughters you are if you do good and are not afraid with any terror.
[h=3]A Word to Husbands[/h][SUP]7 [/SUP]Husbands, likewise, dwell with
them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as
being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
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those are the ones that come to mind when the topic of how to base your life around a godly marriage comes up. we can go deeper into the scriptures and pull other parallel scriptures to expand our understanding of the ones posted above, but I'm going to have to plead a sleepy brain.
.lol don't even know if i make sense to myself right now.