God's Design for Marriage

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SUBMISSION TO GOD

1 John 1:5-6 (New International Version)

 5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth.

1 John 2:4-6 (New International Version)

4 The man who says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: 6Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.
LEAVING & CLEAVING

Genesis 2:18-24 (New International Version)

 18 The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."

 19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field.
      But for Adam 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 and closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib 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,
       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 19:5-6 (New International Version)

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'? 6 So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."
SPIRITUAL LEADER & HEAD OF HOUSE

Ephesians 5:23 (New International Version)

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.

1 Corinthians 11:3 (New International Version)

 3 Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
HELPER & COMPANION

Genesis 2:18-20 (New International Version)

 18 The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."

 19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field.
      But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
LOVE = CHERISH & NOURISH

Ephesians 5:25 (New International Version)

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

Proverbs 31:28-29 (New International Version)

 28 Her children arise and call her blessed;
       her husband also, and he praises her:

 29 "Many women do noble things,
       but you surpass them all."
RESPECT

Ephesians 5:33 (New International Version)

33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
MUTUAL SUBMISSION

Ephesians 5:21-22 (New International Version)

21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.  22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord