HELP WHEN THE STRUGGLE IS REAL
1 Corinthians 7.8-16
1 Corinthians: Resisting The Drift – Part 5 of 7
c. 6.11 “Some of you used to be like this.” (csb)
GOD’S COUNSEL FOR APPROACHING …
SINGLENESS: BALANCE Idealism and Realism
vv. 8 & 25 “But I say to the unmarried and to widows … [&] concerning virgins …” (nas)
v. 8 “… it is good for them to remain single …” (esv
c. 12.18 “God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.” (niv)
v. 9 “But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.” (esv)
A HARD MARRIAGE: BUILD WITH Resilience and Permanence
Ephesians 5.25 “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church …” (esv)
vv. 10-11 “To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband … she should … be reconciled …” (esv)
Matthew 19.6 “What … God has joined together, let not man separate.” (esv)
Matthew 5.32 “Everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.” (esv)
1 John 4.19 “We love because he first loved us.” (esv)
AN UNSAVED SPOUSE: BE AT PEACE WITH Them Staying or Leaving
v. 12 “I (not the Lord) say to the rest: If any brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her.” (csb)
v. 14 “The unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife … Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.” (esv)
1 John 4.4 “He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.” (esv)
v. 15 “But if the unbeliever leaves, let him leave.” (csb)
v. 16 “How do you know … whether you will save your husband? Or … whether you will save your wife?” (esv)
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