Being Successful Marriage Choices What to Avoid

Being Successful

Marriage Choices What to Avoid 

Choices right or wrong you have to live with your choices

Making the choice of a spouse for life

is the second biggest decision of your life

Therefore be wise and draw near to the Lord

That you may find the one that is from the Lord

Marriage Choices What to Avoid 

Choices right or wrong you

have to live with your choices.

Marriage is the second biggest choice you will make

in life next to choosing to become a Christ follower.

The Apostle Paul said it is better to not marry

but most cannot handle being unmarried.

Because so many cannot remain sexually pure,

 they should marry rather than have a live-in partner.

It is good for a man not to marry. But since there is so much immorality,

each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

 1 Corinthians 7:1-2 NIV

For most of us we should marry and

that means choosing the right spouse.

A good choice greatly enhances life.

But a wrong choice can destroy a person from the inside out.

A wife of noble character is her husband's crown,

but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.

Proverbs 12:4 NIV

A mistake in the choice of a spouse cannot be easily corrected.

Despite popular opinion, divorce is not the solution.

God hates divorce and it may not be a

viable option for the disciple of Christ.

Malachi 2:16; Matthew 19:8,9

Even when divorce is an option, if there are

children your husband or wife will always be

the father or mother (for better or for worse).

As difficult as it might seem to a young

person in earlier cultures parents arranged

the marriage partner for their children.

It might be good to note that God wants to

arrange marriage by choosing the spouse.

Houses and wealth are inherited from parents,

but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

Proverbs 19:14 NIV

So if you are looking for a spouse the closer you get to

God the closer you will get to your life marriage partner.

So how does a man find a good wife?

First seek God’s help.

Don’t place your priorities on looks alone.

Beauty is skin deep and time has a way of changing it.

But a woman who fears the Lord holds

inter beauty that increases over time.

Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;

but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

Proverbs 31:30 NIV

A woman who fears the Lord will

possess the beginning of Wisdom.

Look for a woman with discretion.

Like a gold ring in a pig's snout

is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion.

Proverbs 11:22 NIV

A beautiful woman without intelligence

or good taste is the object of ridicule

and the dumb blond jokes.

A man should look for a woman who will build a good home.

A good home cannot be built without wisdom.

The wise woman builds her house, but with

her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.

Proverbs 14:1 NIV

Avoid a contentious or argumentative woman.

A quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping on

a rainy day; restraining her is like restraining

 the wind or grasping oil with the hand.

Proverbs 27:15-16 NIV

The right choice will make a man very happy.

 

He who finds a wife finds what is good

and receives favor from the LORD.

Proverbs 18:22 NIV

God tells us what we should avoid and what

we should look for in a wife or husband.

The decision you make is for life - choose wisely.   

Scripture Reading

Proverbs 19:13-14

13 A foolish son is his father's ruin,

and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.

14 Houses and wealth are inherited from parents,

but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

Proverbs 12:4

4 A wife of noble character is her husband's crown,

but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.