The Sunday School Lesson Keep Marriage Sacred by David McGee
Jan 10, 2023
Keep Marriage Sacred (30:24)
Referenced Scriptures: Genesis 2:18-24; Matthew 5:27-30; Matthew 19:1-9; 1 Corinthians 6:18-20; 1 Corinthians 7:1-6; Ephesians 5:21-33
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The scriptures below are from the WEB Bible.
Genesis 2:18-24
18) Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
19) Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
20) The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.
21) Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
22) He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.
23) The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
24) Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Matthew 5:27-30
27) "You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;‘
28) but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
29) If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you. For it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
30) If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not your whole body be cast into Gehenna.
Matthew 19:1-9
1) It happened when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.
2) Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.
3) Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"
4) He answered, "Haven‘t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
5) and said, ‘For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?‘
6) So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don‘t let man tear apart."
7) They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?"
8) He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.
9) I tell you that whoever will put away his wife, except for sexual immorality, and will marry another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is put away commits adultery."
1 Corinthians 6:18-20
18) Flee sexual immorality. "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
19) Or don‘t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,
20) for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God‘s.
1 Corinthians 7:1-6
1) Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me. It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2) But, because of sexual sins, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
3) Let the husband render to the wife her due, and likewise also the wife to the husband.
4) The wife doesn‘t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn‘t have power over his own body, but the wife.
5) Don‘t defraud one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn‘t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
6) But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
Ephesians 5:21-33
21) subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
22) Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
23) For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
24) But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.
25) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
26) that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
27) that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28) Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
29) For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also the assembly;
30) because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
31) "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."
32) This mystery is great, but I speak in regard of Christ and of the assembly.
33) Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
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