Dag Heward-Mills MODEL MARRIAGE
A Marriage Counselling Handbook
ISBN 13: 978-0-7963-0967-9
This report has been written in honour of my wife
Rosemary Copeland with whom I broke my marriage in
1993. Whatever were good reasons as I had thought,
I did wrong in the eyes of God. I wish there could
be reconciliation. I have two children in PNG and
their needs are paramount.
There are those who say that Scripture consists of fairy
stories. But if we read, we find an amazing uniformity to
advise us to live a Godly lifestyle. And at times, a chilling
invocation to us all to remain faithful to our spouse.
What is a beloved?
My beloved is mine and I am his.
Solomon 2:16
Marriage
To avoid fornication, let every man have his own
wife and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:2
Marry the right person
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good
1 Thessalonians 5:21
Loneliness
And the Lord God said. It is not good that a
man should be alone. I will make a help meet
for him.
Genesis 2:18
Leaving
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his
mother and shall cleave unto his wife.
Genesis 2:24
Wisdom
Through wisdom is a house built. But by
understanding it is established.
Proverbs 24:3
Blessed
Blessed is the man who walks not in the
counsel of the ungodly, nor sitteth in the
seat of the scornful. But his delight is in
the law of the Lord. And in his law he
doth meditate day and night.
And he shall be like a tree, planted by the
rivers of waters. His leaf shall not wither
and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Ungodly
The ungodly are not so, but are like chaff
which wind driveth away. The Lord knoweth
the way of the righteous. But the way of the
ungodly shall perish.
Psalms 1: 1-6
Sinners
But God commanded his love towards us. While
We were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8
Love your wives
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved his
Church and gave Himself for it.
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands love your wives and be not bitter against
them.
Colosians 3:19
Hatred and Love
Hatred stirreth up strifes; but love covereth all sins
Proverbs 10:12.
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love. He that
repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Love a wife
Let her be as a loving hind and pleasant roe. Let her
breasts satisfy thee at all times and thou be ravished
always by her love.
Proverbs 5:19
Power to speak
Death and love are in the power of the tongue and they
that love it shall eat the fruit.
Proverbs 18:21
Man and wife
And they were both naked man and his wife and were
Not ashamed
Genesis 2:25
Truth
Finally brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever
things are honest, whatsoever things are just. whatsoever
things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever
things are of good report, if there be any virtue and if there
be any praise, think on these things.
Philippians 4:8
Grace
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt,
that ye may know how to answer every man.
Colossians 4:6
Speak
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver
Proverbs 25:11
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth but
that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may administer
grace unto the hearers.
Ephesians 4:29
Wife
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy
vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of
thy vanity, for that is thy portion in this life and in thy labour
which thou takest under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Let thy fountain be blessed and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Proverbs 5:18
Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
Colossians 3:19
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge,
Giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel, and as being
heirs together of the grace of life.
1 Peter 3:7
Provide for family
If any provide not for his own and specially for those of his own
house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.
1 Timothy 5:8
Wives
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as unto the lord.
for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head
of the church and he is the saviour of the body. As the church is
subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in
every thing.
Ephesians 5: 22-24
She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law
of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household and
eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her
blessed. Her husband also ad he praiseth her.
Proverbs 31: 1031.
Divorce
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall
cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh.
Genesis 2:24
But I say unto you. That whosoever shall put away his wife saving
For the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery and
Whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Matthew 5:2
For the woman which hath a husband is bound by the law to her
husband so long as he liveth. But if the husband be dead, she is
loosed from the law of her husband.
Romans 7:2
And unto the married I command. Yet not I but the Lord. Let not
the wife depart from her husband. If she should depart let her
remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And let not
the husband put away his wife.
1 Corinthians 7:10,11
Our language has a place for the word of God every time we think
of kindness, grace, love, patience, humility, peace, forgiveness,
fellowship, truth, hope and faith.
THESE ARE GOD WORDS.
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