MARRIAGE

Marriage was God’s idea, therefore there’s no better place to turn for our marriages than God’s Word. The Bible makes it clear that God intended for a man and his wife to be united together in a healthy, happy, and fulfilling marriage covenant that would last a lifetime. Yet, many couples are experiencing less than what God intended in their marriage. The fact is, people inside the church do not have any less exposure to marital troubles than people outside the church. Believers are still susceptible to; miscommunication, conflict, sexual temptation, physical challenges, and other stumbling blocks. Research studies show that the divorce rate among Christians and non-Christians is nearly the same. But studies also show that when couples combine being planted in a healthy local church, with putting specific attention to improving their marriage, the success rate for marriages increases significantly. At All Nations Community Church in Leeds, we provide Marriage Coaches who foster a safe place for newly engaged or already married couples to turn to, in order to build strong, healthy, and Godly marriages.

...and the two will become one.

Ephesians 5:31

What the Bible says about Marriage

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, His body, and is Himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her, that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of the water with the Word...

Ephesians 5:22-33

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong doing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

I Corinthians 13:4-7

And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

Genesis 2:22-25

To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.

I Corinthians 7:12-15

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

I Corinthians 7:1-5

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands.

I Peter 3:1-11

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

Proverbs 21:9

House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Proverbs 19:14

Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

II Corinthians 6:14

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Matthew 5:32

He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

Proverbs 18:22

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Hebrews 13:4

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Genesis 2:24

Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.

I Timothy 3:12

Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.

Matthew 12:25

But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.

Mark 10:6-9

When you make a vow to God, do not delay to pay it; For He has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you have vowed. Better not to vow than to vow and not pay.

Ecclesiastes 5:4-5
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