07/07/2024
What are other key Scriptures about marriage?
>>> More verses from God’s Word about marriage, including some key texts from Jesus
-->> (These passages in this section are quoted from the NKJV, with slightly updating of wording to match the literal, but still mostly NKJV wording) > Key notes: God hates divorce, why? Because unless sexual immorality outside marriage during marriage rips the marriage covenant in two – wounding both even if one or both don’t care. So in God’s eyes, the two (husband + wife) have become one and are still one, and all sexual activity other than between those two is counted against their souls by God. A deceptive piece of paper does not nullify a marriage in God’s eyes. Sexual adultery and death are the two main things that God accepts as reasons for release from marriage covenant. The only other one is when an unbeliever leaves a believer, then the honest spouse (he/she) can marry only in the Lord. All other opinions and complaints and “reasons” do not count as divorce or release from marriage, in God’s eyes.
“10 Now to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord: A wife is not to depart from her husband. 11 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. 12 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. 13 And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is willing to live with her, let her not divorce him. 14 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. 15 But if the unbeliever departs, let him depart; a brother or a sister is not under bo***ge in such cases. But God has called us to peace. 16 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?” (1 Corinthians 7:10-16)
>> Please note this key distinction: God always distinguishes, throughout His Word, the major difference between separation of a husband and wife, and actual divorce. If a man commits sexual adultery against his wife, God counts the marriage covenant as torn in two. If they mend, they mend. If not, God counts it against him, and she is free to marry in the Lord. If there is sexual violation in the marriage on both parts, that is a bit more complicated, but can be worked thru detail by detail. If the husband has left his wife, but then gets a conscience and doesn’t want to be in guilt of being an adulterer, then he must mend with his wife, or he will be continually adding more sins to his current sins, and very deep ones.
“1 Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the Word of God, they, without a harsh word, may be won by the conduct of their wives, 2 when they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by healthy fear of the Lord. 3 Do not let your adornment be merely external and outward--arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel-- 4 but instead let it be the hidden person of the godly heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God. 5 For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands, 6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daughters you are if you do good and are not afraid with any terror. 7 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.” (1 Peter 3:1-7)
“22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 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. 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. 30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. 31 "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33 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.” (Ephesians 5:22-33)
>> Key notes: Men do *not* have the right to harp on ladies hypocritically. They must be gentle with their wives as they grow in and teach not to love this world or to seek the approval of sinful men and women of the world, but instead to become content in the Lord, in His Word, and the trials He sends/allows and uses to grow us more away from sin and closer to Him. All things need to be in truth, with gentleness within marriage and the honest body of Christ.
“3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also fore-warned you and testified. 7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. 8 Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.” (1 Thessalonians 4:3-8)
Pastor’s required by God to be a one-wife husband:
“6 if a man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of dissipation or insubordination.” (Titus 1:6)
“1 This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good work. 2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach; 3 not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; 4 one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence 5 (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?); 6 not a novice, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the same condemnation as the devil. 7 Moreover he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.” (1 Timothy 3:1-7)
And the final banquet with Christ that we all should look forward to:
“6 And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunderings, saying, "Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns! 7 Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready." 8 And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.” (Revelation 19:6-8)
