There are many misconceptions around marriage that I personally found damaging. In today's podcast I discuss some of those misconceptions and how they affected me personally.
******WARNING******* This is MY personal experience. I am not saying that this applies to everyone. This is my experience and what I learned and had to unlearn.
Scripture references:
1 Corinthians 7:4
The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not ha...
There are many misconceptions around marriage that I personally found damaging. In today's podcast I discuss some of those misconceptions and how they affected me personally.
******WARNING******* This is MY personal experience. I am not saying that this applies to everyone. This is my experience and what I learned and had to unlearn.
Scripture references:
1 Corinthians 7:4
The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.
Malachi 2: 13-16
13 “This is [r]another thing you do: you cover the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping and with groaning, because He no longer regards the [s]offering or accepts it with favor from your hand. 14 Yet you say, ‘For what reason?’ Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. 15 [t]But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And [u]what did that one do while he was seeking a godly [v]offspring? Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth. 16 For [w]I hate [x]divorce,” says the Lord, the God of Israel,
Ephesians 5:33
33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she [r]respects her husband.
1 Peter 3:7
7 You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with [c]someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
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