7 Keys To Husbands And Wives - A Biblical Guide To A Happy Marriage

7 KEYS TO HUSBANDS AND WIVES - A BIBLICAL GUIDE TO A HAPPY MARRIAGE

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OUTLINE

1. FEAR THE LORD AND WALK IN HIS WAYS AND SERVE HIM AS A FAMILY

2. UNDERSTAND THE MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN IN GOD'S CREATION . HUSBANDS LOVE YOUR WIVES . WIVES HONOUR AND OBEY YOUR HUSBANDS.

3. GIVE PRIORITY TO EACH OTHER MORE THAN TO ANYONE ELSE. VALUE AND CHERISH EACH OTHER AS A GIFT FROM GOD.

4. BE THE BEST FRIEND AND CLOSEST CONFIDANT OF EACH OTHER. ENCOURAGE AND STRENGTHEN EACH OTHER IN DIFFICULT TIMES AND FACE THE CHALLENGES OF LIFE UNITEDLY.

5. BE KIND AND CONSIDERATE TO EACH OTHER'S LIKES AND DISLIKES. BE GENTLE WITH YOUR WORDS AND ACTIONS TOWARDS EACH OTHER AND BE QUICK TO FORGIVE ONE ANOTHER

6. BE FAITHFUL AND COMMITED TO EACH OTHER ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE

7. BE DILIGENT AND FAITHFUL AND GENEROUS IN PROVIDING FOR THE NEEDS OF YOUR FAMILY

THE MESSAGE

1. FEAR THE LORD AND WALK IN HIS WAYS AND SERVE HIM AS A FAMILY

SCRIPTURE REFERENCES

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PSALM 128:1-6

Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in his ways.

You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your sons will be like olive shoots around your table.

Thus is the man blessed who fears the LORD.

May the LORD bless you from Zion all the days of your life; may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem,

and may you live to see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel.

JOSHUA 24:15

But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond

the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."

2. UNDERSTAND THE MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN IN GOD'S CREATION . HUSBANDS LOVE YOUR WIVES . WIVES HONOUR AND OBEY YOUR HUSBANDS.

SCRIPTURE REFERENCES

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GENESIS 2:27

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

COLOSSIANS 3:18-19

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

EPHESIANS 5:22-33

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.

Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church—

for we are members of his body.

"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."

This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.

However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

1 PETER 3:1-7

Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of

their wives,

when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.

Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes.

Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight.

For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands,

like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her master. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious

gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.