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Prov 5:18
18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth. (NKJ)
Prov 12:4
4 An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who causes shame is like rottenness in his bones. (NKJ)
Prov 18:22
22 He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the LORD. (NKJ)
Prov 19:13
13b the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping. (NKJ)
Webster contention = strife
Prov 19:14
14b a prudent wife is from the LORD. (NKJ)
Prov 21:19
19 Better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. (NKJ)
Eccl 9:9
9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity; for that is your portion in life, and in the labor which you perform under the sun. (NKJ)
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Heb 13:4
4 Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. (NKJ)
2 Cor 6:14
14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? (NKJ)
1Cor 2:16
16 "For the LORD God of Israel says that He hates divorce, for it covers one's garment with violence," says the LORD of hosts. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously." (NKJ)
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SEX
1 Cor 6:15
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! (NKJ)
16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For "the two," He says, "shall become one flesh." (NKJ)
17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. (NKJ)
18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. (NKJ)
19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? (NKJ)
20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. (NKJ)
1 Cor 7:8
8 But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am; (NKJ)
9 but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion. (NKJ)
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STAND FOR A BROKEN MARRIAGE
Col 1:20 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
20 and by Him to[[[[[[ reconcile all things ]]]]]] to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. (NKJ)
DOES THIS MEAN YOUR MARRIAGE ALSO?? he reconciles all things on earth or things in heaven
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THE VIRTUOUS WIFE: PROVERBS 31:10-31
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"That the woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved." Matthew Henry
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THE CHRISTIAN HOME
Col 3:18
18 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. NKJ)
19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them. (NKJ)
20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord. (NKJ)
21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. (NKJ)
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