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Build a marriage strong enough to survive any economy
Even in good times, financial matters can put a strain on your marriage. So given the current recession, it's crucial for you and your spouse to learn how to get through a tough economical period without causing any harm to your relationship. Learn more about this in our may 1st session of SMART marriage class.
Scriptures every couple needs to study
Genesis 2:20-24 NIV So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field.
But for Adam [8] no suitable helper was found. (21) So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs [9] and closed up the place with flesh. (22) Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib [10] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. (23) The man said,
"This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called 'woman, [11] '
for she was taken out of man." (24) For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Matthew 19:1-6 NIV Divorce Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went into the region of Judea to the other side of the Jordan. (2) Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. (3) Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?" (4) "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,'[1] (5) and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'[2]? (6) So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."
Ephesians 5:22-33 NIV Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. (23) 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. (24) Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. (25) Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her (26) to make her holy, cleansing[2] her by the washing with water through the word, (27) and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. (28) In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. (29) After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church-- (30) for we are members of his body. (31) "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."[3] (32) This is a profound mystery--but I am talking about Christ and the church. (33) However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
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