Love quotes
The following are various scriptures that you’ll find helpful for living by the Bible in your marriage:
• Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. (1 John 4:7-8)
• Love flows through a marriage that lives up to mutual responsibility. “Love is not self seeking, it’s not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrong." (1 Corinthians 13:5 )
• Foundation Verses for Marriage: “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds." (Hebrews 10:24) Ask yourself: “How can I spur him on to encourage him?"
• Don’t isolate yourself, “Let us encourage one another —and all the more as you see the day approaching" (Hebrews 10:25).
• A true demonstration of love:“This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for each other." (1 John 3:16)
• Apply Hebrews 10:24 that says, “As far as it be within you be at peace with all men."
• Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. (Ephesians 5:21)
• It says in 1 Corinthians 13:7 that love “always protects." That doesn’t mean love enables, covers over, or makes secret those things that should be brought to the light. (Giving “protecting love" is being very careful and prayerful of when, where, and with whom, we share “personal" details of our married life that need extra help and wise counsel.) To truly love our spouse is to protect them by showing honor and respect for their feelings— not revealing or doing anything that will embarrass or “cut them down." By doing so, we’re dishonoring them and showing that we don’t value them.
It also tells us in 1 Corinthians 13 that “love is kind," “does not delight in evil," and “is not self-seeking" so by embarrassing them, we dishonor not only our spouse, but in many ways, we also show the Lord that we dishonor His Word. Even if our spouse dishonors us, we aren’t given the permission to retaliate in return.
• Keep in mind as you weather those marital storms, that we’re warned in 1 Corinthians 7:27-28, that “those who marry will face many troubles in this life."
• In reading Luke 19:41-44, I see how these verses could also apply to the enormous sadness that Christ must feel as He sees the “war" that rages within marriages today. It says in these verses, “As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, ‘If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace — but it’s hidden from your eyes. The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you didn’t recognize the time of God’s coming to you
