marriage arguments

¹³Support one another, and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive one another. For just as the Lord has forgiven you, so also must you do.

³³Yet truly, each and every one of you should love his wife as himself. And a wife should fear her husband.

¹⁸A short-tempered man provokes conflicts. Whoever is patient tempers those who are stirred up.

¹My son, do not forget my law, but let your heart guard my precepts. ²For they shall set before you length of days, and years of life, and peace. ³Let not mercy and truth abandon you: encircle them around your throat, and inscribe them on the tablets of your heart. ⁴And so shall you discover grace and good discipline, in the sight of God and men. ⁵Have confidence in the Lord with all your heart, and do not depend upon your own prudence. ⁶In all your ways, consider him, and he himself will direct your steps.

²²Wives should be submissive to their husbands, as to the Lord. ²³For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the Church. He is the Savior of his body. ²⁴Therefore, just as the Church is subject to Christ, so also should wives be subject to their husbands in all things. ²⁵Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and handed himself over for her, ²⁶so that he might sanctify her, washing her clean by water and the Word of life, ²⁷so that he might offer her to himself as a glorious Church, not having any spot or wrinkle or any such thing, so that she would be holy and immaculate.

¹A mild response shatters anger. But a harsh word stirs up fury.

¹⁵But if you will not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive you your sins.

⁹But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, as well as arguments against the law. For these are useless and empty.

⁸But, before all things, have a constant mutual charity among yourselves. For love covers a multitude of sins.

²⁴It is better to sit in a corner of the attic, than with an argumentative woman and in a shared house.

¹⁴Insist on these things, testifying before the Lord. Do not be contentious about words, for this is useful for nothing but the subversion of listeners.

⁴Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated. ⁵Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises no evil.

⁴May marriage be honorable in every way, and may the marriage bed be immaculate. For God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

²³But avoid foolish and undisciplined questions, for you know that these produce strife. ²⁴For the servant of the Lord must not be contentious, but instead he must be meek toward everyone, teachable, patient,

³¹Do not rival an unjust man, and do not imitate his ways.

¹Where do wars and contentions among you come from? Is it not from this: from your own desires, which battle within your members? ²You desire, and you do not have. You envy and you kill, and you are unable to obtain. You argue and you fight, and you do not have, because you do not ask. ³You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.

³³Destitution in the house of the impious is from the Lord. But the habitations of the just shall be blessed. ³⁴He will ridicule those who ridicule, but he will bestow grace upon the mild. ³⁵The wise will possess glory. The exaltation of the foolish is disgraceful.

⁶And so, now they are not two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no man separate.”

¹⁰Who shall find a strong woman? Far away, and from the furthest parts, is her price.

²⁴For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.