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Finances
Sexual Relations
Child Training
Religion
Social Activities/Recreation
Associating With Friends
In-Law Relationships
- Building a Successful Marriage
Landis & Landis
Religion
• Marry a Christian
2 Corinthians 6:14–17 (NKJV)
14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what
fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion
has light with darkness? 15 And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or
what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16 And what agreement has
the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As
God has said: “I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their
God, And they shall be My people.” 17 Therefore “Come out from among
them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I
will receive you.”
Religion
• Marry a Christian
2 Corinthians 6:14–17 (NKJV)
14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what
fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion
has light with darkness? 15 And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or
what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16 And what agreement has
the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As
God has said: “I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their
God, And they shall be My people.” 17 Therefore “Come out from among
them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I
will receive you.”
Religion
• Marry a Christian
“ginomai” (pronounced ghin'-om-ahee) and
“me” (pronounced may)
2 Corinthians 6:14–17 (NKJV)
14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what
fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion
has light with darkness? 15 And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or
what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16 And what agreement has
the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As
God has said: “I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their
God, And they shall be My people.” 17 Therefore “Come out from among
them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I
will receive you.”
Religion
• Marry a Christian
“ginomai” (pronounced ghin'-om-ahee) and
“me” (pronounced may)
Ephesians 5:17 (NKJV)
“Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.”
Religion
• Marry a Christian
“ginomai” (pronounced ghin'-om-ahee) and
“me” (pronounced may)
Ephesians 5:7
“do not be partakers with them.”
Religion
• Marry a Christian
“ginomai” (pronounced ghin'-om-ahee) and
“me” (pronounced may)
1 Corinthians 14:20
“…do not be children in understanding; however, in malice be babes, but
in understanding be mature.”
Religion
• Marry a Christian
“ginomai” (pronounced ghin'-om-ahee) and
“me” (pronounced may)
John 20:27
“…Do not be unbelieving, but believing.”
Religion
• Marry a Christian
• Convert Them
1 Corinthians 7:12–13 (NKJV)
12 But to the rest I, not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife who does
not believe, and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her. 13
And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is willing to
live with her, let her not divorce him.
Religion
• Marry a Christian
• Convert Them
1 Corinthians 7:16 (NKJV)
16 For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or
how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?
Recreation
• The family bond is so much closer when you can learn to find things you
enjoy doing together.
Finances
1 Timothy 6:9–10 (NKJV)
9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into
many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and
perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which
some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced
themselves through with many sorrows.
Finances
Proverbs 22:7 (NKJV)
7 The rich rules over the poor, And the borrower is servant to the lender.
Friends
Ecclesiastes 4:9–12 (NKJV)
9 Two are better than one, Because they have a good reward for their
labor. 10 For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who
is alone when he falls, For he has no one to help him up. 11 Again, if two
lie down together, they will keep warm; But how can one be warm alone?
12 Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him.
And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Friends
Proverbs 18:24 (RSV)
There are friends who pretend to be friends, but there is a friend who
sticks closer than a brother.
Friends
Psalm 119:63 (NKJV)
63 I am a companion of all who fear You, And of those who keep Your
precepts.
Children
• Come to an agreement concerning the raising of children, preferably
before marriage.
In-Laws
Matthew 19:5 (NKJV)
…‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined
to his wife…
• Young couples need to remember that this is a new home that you will make
together.
• In-laws should be involved in the disputes between husband and wife as little as
possible.
• Couples should run to in-laws as little as possible, working out problems for
themselves.
Intimacy
• Problems with intimacy are usually the symptom of other problems.
1 Corinthians 7:3–5 (NKJV)
3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise
also the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her
own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not
have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 Do not deprive one
another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to
fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not
tempt you because of your lack of self-control.