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The number one reason marriages fail:
"1What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight." - James 4:1-2
The very antithesis of God's love.
"1What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight." - James 4:1-2
The very antithesis of God's love.
this is true it comes from desire basically i believe is what the verse is saying right. not healthy desire but like lust. i really want that car i really want that car. instead of being content with what God has given
you know always lust grows too, once you get something you need more. like look at drug addicts, first its small amount, then you need more and more and more. same with se*xual sins, it becomes more and more perverted until its like what some of the catholic priests do.
same also with lust for money. you first just want to get good returns on investment, but then you need bigger and bigger investment returns and more houses more cars more jewelry its always more. the lust is never satisfied. there is one famous magazine owner here who was really rich and he drank himself to death and he said "i have done everything i can do with money" so just like salomon he realized okay it didnt fulfill me.
i think its only Jesus that can bring that real fulfillment, it doesnt matter if you never have s*ex or never have a car or never have a house or never fly a jet or never have jewelry, never invest in anything but if you have Jesus and in good fellowship with God you will be happier than any of those people chasing their lusts endlessly like dog chasing tail.
you know always lust grows too, once you get something you need more. like look at drug addicts, first its small amount, then you need more and more and more. same with se*xual sins, it becomes more and more perverted until its like what some of the catholic priests do.
same also with lust for money. you first just want to get good returns on investment, but then you need bigger and bigger investment returns and more houses more cars more jewelry its always more. the lust is never satisfied. there is one famous magazine owner here who was really rich and he drank himself to death and he said "i have done everything i can do with money" so just like salomon he realized okay it didnt fulfill me.
i think its only Jesus that can bring that real fulfillment, it doesnt matter if you never have s*ex or never have a car or never have a house or never fly a jet or never have jewelry, never invest in anything but if you have Jesus and in good fellowship with God you will be happier than any of those people chasing their lusts endlessly like dog chasing tail.
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Not that I wish to generalise here but I'm sure the following does not help either
1 Peter 3:7
A Word to Husbands
7 Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
1 Peter 3:7
A Word to Husbands
7 Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
Huh, that's funny. My Bible ends the passage at vs. 6...
"...the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. 5For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands, 6like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord." - 1 Peter 3:4-6
"...the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. 5For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands, 6like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord." - 1 Peter 3:4-6
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Huh, that's funny. My Bible ends the passage at vs. 6...
"...the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. 5For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands, 6like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord." - 1 Peter 3:4-6
"...the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. 5For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands, 6like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord." - 1 Peter 3:4-6
Calling him lord. I joke that it’s the 80’s in our home. The 1880’s, lol.
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I use a similar joke when talking about how Paul uses the lawful submission of a wife to a husband to illustrate how we are in lawful submission to the flesh, until the flesh dies, whereby the law no longer has authority to hold us in marital bondage to the demands of the flesh.
"2For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives." - Romans 7:2
"2For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives." - Romans 7:2
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Huh, that's funny. My Bible ends the passage at vs. 6...
"...the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. 5For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands, 6like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord." - 1 Peter 3:4-6
"...the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. 5For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands, 6like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord." - 1 Peter 3:4-6
The reason I didn't was because having spent time with a few couples it was apparent that the husband expected to wife to be obedient but alas the obedience they wanted was not the lady described in the above verse.
They twisted the meaning. They rode roughshod over their wives and basically do not love her like Christ loves the church.
I cannot recall in the Bible where a wife is told to love her husband but a husband is.
Seen too many situations where a husband does not do that but basically wants a slave to conform his way of thinking.
Mind you I could have posted
Proverbs 27:15
15 A quarrelsome wife is as annoying
as constant dripping on a rainy day.
Proverbs 21:9
9 It’s better to live alone in the corner of an attic
than with a quarrelsome wife in a lovely home.
I remember once a while back.
My wife was stood in front of long mirror.
She asked me "Does this dress make my bum look big?
Without thinking I said "No it's all the cake and chocolate you eat that makes your bum big"
I soon saw the errors of my ways.
About three days later the right blackened eye healed and two days later the left one did.
My wife was stood in front of long mirror.
She asked me "Does this dress make my bum look big?
Without thinking I said "No it's all the cake and chocolate you eat that makes your bum big"
I soon saw the errors of my ways.
About three days later the right blackened eye healed and two days later the left one did.
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Thank you so very much @Oncefallen for removing all those horrible red X's
It felt very personal this time. Much appreciated.
It felt very personal this time. Much appreciated.
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Romans 11:9
And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
Truth be known? It was precisely people like you, "who make the hearts of the righteous sad, and strengthen the hands of the wicked by promising them life." Something of the which you have not the authority to do.
Is the exact reason I walked away from "churches of stone!"
Haven't returned since!
And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
Truth be known? It was precisely people like you, "who make the hearts of the righteous sad, and strengthen the hands of the wicked by promising them life." Something of the which you have not the authority to do.
Is the exact reason I walked away from "churches of stone!"
Haven't returned since!