What Jesus Said About Marriage, Purity and SexualitySample

Quotes on Marriage

Two Scriptures about marriage to consider include:

Proverbs 5:18-19: Let your fountain be blessed, and take pleasure in the wife of your youth. A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.

Ecclesiastes 9:9: Enjoy life with your beloved wife all the days of the fleeting life you have been given under the sun—all your fleeting days. For this is your reward in life and in your toil under the sun.

Quotes that you might find helpful:

A woman's (or man's) heart should be so close to God that a man (or woman) should have to chase Him to find her (him) (Erwin Lutzer).

Marriage is (and must be) patterned after Christ's covenant relationship to His redeemed people, the church (Wayne Grudem).

Marriage requires a unique commitment, which the Scriptures describe as a covenant (Dennis Rainey).

Purity always has a cost, but impurity has a greater price (Anonymous).

God's desire and design for sexual fulfilment are to be met in marriage alone (Elizabeth Elliot).

Sex can be a tyrant, demanding everything and offering nothing (Elizabeth Elliot).

I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable (G.K. Chesterton).

God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God (Max Lucado).

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day (Barbara de Angelis).

A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make (Gary Thomas).

There is no challenge strong enough to destroy your marriage as long as you are both willing to stop fighting against each other and start fighting for each other (Dave Willis).

Obedience: What needs to change in your marriage? Or even just in your relationship with the people in your family? When are you going to do something about it?