Marriage Flashcards
Building an understanding of marriage
Marriage is lawful (4 scripts)
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Exodus 22:16
And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
1 Corinthians 7:2
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:9
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Not good for man to be alone (2 scripts)
Genesis 2:18
And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Tobit 8:6-7
[6]Thou madest Adam, and gavest him Eve his wife for an helper and stay: of them came mankind: thou hast said, It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself.
[7]And now, O Lord, I take not this my sister for lust but uprightly: therefore mercifully ordain that we may become aged together.
Husband is the head (4 scripts)
1 Corinthians 11:3
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
Ephesians 5:22-24
[22]Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
[23]For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
[24]Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
1 Corinthians 11:8-9
[8]For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
[9]Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
Genesis 3:16
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Wives learn from husband
1 Corinthians 14:34-35
[34]Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
[35]And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
No interracial marriage (4 scripts)
Deuteronomy 7:3
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
Joshua 23:12-13
[12]Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
[13]Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
Tobit 4:12-13
[12]Beware of all whoredom, my son, and chiefly take a wife of the seed of thy fathers, and take not a strange woman to wife, which is not of thy father’s tribe: for we are the children of the prophets, Noe, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: remember, my son, that our fathers from the beginning, even that they all married wives of their own kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their seed shall inherit the land.
[13]Now therefore, my son, love thy brethren, and despise not in thy heart thy brethren, the sons and daughters of thy people, in not taking a wife of them: for in pride is destruction and much trouble, and in lewdness is decay and great want: for lewdness is the mother of famine.
1 Kings 11:1-2
[1]But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
[2]Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
Call husband lord
1 Peter 3:6
Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
Help meet (2 scripts)
Genesis 2:18
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Tobit 8:6
Thou madest Adam, and gavest him Eve his wife for an helper and stay: of them came mankind: thou hast said, It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself.
Virtuous wife (3 script)
Ecclesiasticus 26:1-3
[1]Blessed is the man that hath a virtuous wife, for the number of his days shall be double.
[2]A virtuous woman rejoiceth her husband, and he shall fulfil the years of his life in peace.
[3]A good wife is a good portion, which shall be given in the portion of them that fear the Lord.
Proverbs 31:10-12
[10]Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
[11]The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
[12]She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
Tobit 2:10-11
[10]And I knew not that there were sparrows in the wall, and mine eyes being open, the sparrows muted warm dung into mine eyes, and a whiteness came in mine eyes: and I went to the physicians, but they helped me not: moreover Achiacharus did nourish me, until I went into Elymais.
[11]And my wife Anna did take women’s works to do.
1 flesh (3 scripts)
Matthew 19:5-6
[5]And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
[6]Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Ephesians 5:28-31
[28]So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
[29]For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
[30]For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
[31]For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Genesis 2:23-24
[23]And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
[24]Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Father gives daughter away (2 scripts)
Tobit 7:13
Then he called his daughter Sara, and she came to her father, and he took her by the hand, and gave her to be wife to Tobias, saying, Behold, take her after the law of Moses, and lead her away to thy father. And he blessed them;
Ecclesiasticus 7:24-25
[24]Hast thou daughters? have a care of their body, and shew not thyself cheerful toward them.
[25]Marry thy daughter, and so shalt thou have performed a weighty matter: but give her to a man of understanding.
Marriage certificate (2 scripts)
Tobit 7:14
And called Edna his wife, and took paper, and did write an instrument of covenants, and sealed it.
Ecclesiasticus 42:7
Deliver all things in number and weight; and put all in writing that thou givest out, or receivest in.
Proving (3 scripts)
Ecclesiasticus 6:7
If thou wouldest get a friend, prove him first and be not hasty to credit him.
1 John 4:1
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
1 Samuel 25:39
And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
Marriage is beautiful (2 scripts)
Ecclesiasticus 40:23
[23]A friend and companion never meet amiss: but above both is a wife with her husband.
Ecclesiasticus 25:1
In three things I was beautified, and stood up beautiful both before God and men: the unity of brethren, the love of neighbours, a man and a wife that agree together.
Wives subject to husband (2 scripts)
1 Peter 3:1
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
Colossians 3:18
[18]Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
