Marital Relations

Problems

Definition

Problems: A difficult situation, matter or person. Legal relationship between spouses: a legally recognized relationship, established by a civil or religious ceremony, between two people who intend to live together as sexual and domestic partners.

Biblical Statement

God did not intend for you to separate. They will become one flesh, note that God did not say that they would be able to come and go as they pleased. But they would be bound until death. They are one not two.

Scripture

Romans 7:1-2. Do you not know, brothers-- for I am speaking to men who know the law-- that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives? A married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage concerning her husband.  

Mark 10:6-8. From the beginning of creation God made them male and female.  For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh so they are no longer two, but are one flesh.

1st. Corinthians 7:10-11. To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be submissive to her husband. And a husband must not send his wife away.  

Matthew 19:9. I say to you, anyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.

Hebrews 13:5. Keep your lives free from the worship of money and be satisfied with what you have, because God has said, Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.

 

Jeremiah  32:18-19. You demonstrate love to thousands but bring the chastisement for the fathers' sins into the laps of their children after them. Oh great and powerful God, whose name is the Lord almighty, great are your purposes and mighty are your deeds. Your eyes are open to all the ways of men; you reward everyone according to his conduct and as his deeds deserve.

Ephesians  5:21-33. Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 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. Just 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, purifying 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.  Each one of us also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.  

 

 

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