One of our greatest blessings is families. Our loving Heavenly Father has blessed us with families for us to raise our children in and to let ourselves grow as well. He has blessed us to create life. He knows and understands the responsibility that he has given us. But do we?
He also knows and understands that we are not perfect and therefore we all argue. He knows each one of us and our attitude. He has provided us with scriptures for us to learn and study from. He has talked about marriage and husband and wife relationships in 1 Corinthians 7: 2-5. These verses describe how a husband and wife can love one another and learn to strengthen each other.
In verse 3 it says "Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and like-wise also the wife unto the husband."
At the bottom of the page where the footnotes are, if you look at footnote "c" for benevolence it says: love within family; continuing courtship in marriage. So according to the scriptures the husband has to show love within his own family and to continue courtship in the marriage with his wife. And the same goes for the wife as well.
Then in verse 4 it says "The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife."
This verse does not mean you have control over your spouse's body. It simply means that both the husband and the wife are to work together and they are to work and do as one. They are married and therefore must work side by side in order to accomplish anything. When it says that your spouse is in charge of your body and your are in charge of theirs then we are to respect one another. Like this verse says, they have control of our body, so if we respect them then we are respecting what is ours.
In verse 5 it says "Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency."
The footnote for defraud says " depart ye not one from the other..." What this verse is saying is to not leave your spouse without consent. And if you both do decide to split up for a time do it with much fasting and prayer. Then "...come together again, that Satan..." In the footnote for Satan it says "use self control." Control yourself when speaking with one another. The next word in the verse is "tempt" the footnote for that says "lust." So we are to use self control over our lusts and work together as one. This way we don't give into the temptation to lust after our anger and then say or do something that we will regret.
God blesses families. Families start by the husband and wife promising to love one another and take care of one another in their marriage. We will all have different trials in our life and different situations that we will face. We are given scriptures for us to learn from. Use these verses to strengthen yourself and your marriage, if you need them, then share them with others who are in need of help.
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