12/6/2009

Marriage

Marriage is a Good Thing

Proverbs 19:14

How should we look at marriage?

If that is true, how does it affect how we treat our marriage partner?

Proverbs 18:22

Why does gaining a wife bring God’s favor?

Proverbs 12:4 (New American Standard Bible)

Are all marriages created equal? Why or why not?

Is there hope for any marriage? What is essential for success?

Take Care in Your Role as a Spouse

Proverbs 17:1

What really matters in marriage?

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Proverbs 21:19, 25:24, 27:15-16

Many people default to less-than-honorable in relationships.

What dangerous default is presented in here? Why is it dangerous?

Faithfulness
Proverbs 5:15-21

What warning is there for those who start to look around?

Proverbs 30:21-23

What is similar with all four people in these verses?

With the last two, why are they so catastrophic?

Proverbs 14:1

What decision do we all have in our family?

A Virtuous Partner for Life

Proverbs 31:10-31 (New International Version)

What makes this passage so cherished?

What phrases motivate and inspire?

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Found-In-Translation

Proverbs 5:15-21 (New International Version)

Drink water from your own cistern,
running water from your own well.
Should your springs overflow in the streets,
your streams of water in the public squares?
Let them be yours alone,
never to be shared with strangers.
May your fountain be blessed,
and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
A loving doe, a graceful deer—
may her breasts satisfy you always,
may you ever be captivated by her love.
Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress?
Why embrace the bosom of another man's wife?
For a man's ways are in full view of the LORD,
and he examines all his paths.

Proverbs 12:4 (New American Standard Bible)

An excellent wife is the crown of her husband,
But she who shames him is like rottenness in his bones.

Proverbs 14:1 (New Living Translation)

A wise woman builds her home,
but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands.

Proverbs 17:1 (The Message)

A meal of bread and water in contented peace is better than a banquet
spiced with quarrels.

Proverbs 18:22 (Amplified Bible)

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

Proverbs 19:13-14 (King James Version)

A foolish son is the calamity of his father:
and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers:
and a prudent wife is from the LORD.

Proverbs 21:19 (English Standard Version)

It is better to live in a desert land
than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.

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Proverbs 25:24 (Contemporary English Version)
It's better to stay outside
on the roof of your house
than to live inside
with a nagging wife.

Proverbs 27:15-16 (New King James Version)

A continual dripping on a very rainy day
And a contentious woman are alike;
Whoever restrains her restrains the wind,
And grasps oil with his right hand.

Proverbs 30:21-23 (New Living Translation)

There are three things that make the earth tremble—
no, four it cannot endure:
a slave who becomes a king,
an overbearing fool who prospers,
a bitter woman who finally gets a husband,
a servant girl who supplants her mistress.

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