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Bible Memory collection
The Bible treats marriage as a creation ordinance that later turns out to be a picture of Christ and the church. Learn the foundation passages first, and the practical instructions make sense. Genesis 2:24 A man leaves his father and his mother and joins with his wife, and they become one flesh.…
Bible Memory verse
Husbands are told to love their wives as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. The standard is not affection but self-giving, and it is measured at the cross. It settles what headship means in the New Testament: the husband's pattern is a man laying his life down, not a man…
Bible Memory verse
A man leaves his father and his mother and joins with his wife, and they become one flesh. The verse is the narrator's comment on the first marriage, and Jesus and Paul both quote it as the standing definition. It is the passage every other text on marriage builds on. Jesus answers a divorce…
Chapter study
Read Genesis 4:1-16 slowly before reading anything below. The chapter is short, and most of what this study points out is visible in the text itself. Hold three things apart as you read: what Scripture states, what it…
Devotional
Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it. WEB Paul does not tell husbands to love their wives as they love themselves, though that standard would…
Devotional
Revelation 19:9 He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.’” He said to me, “These are true words of God.” WEB Revelation pictures the culmination of redemption as a…
Devotional
John 2:11 This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. WEB John does not call this a miracle in his own vocabulary; he calls it a sign, and he…
Reading plan day
Joseph, planning to quietly break his engagement to the pregnant Mary, is asked by an angel to trust an explanation he could not verify and take her as his wife anyway. His obedience, given with no fanfare, is what…
Reading plan day
Jesus turns water into wine at a wedding, the first of the seven signs John selects to reveal who Jesus is, and then drives merchants from the temple, showing that his authority reaches into both the ordinary and the…
Christian Living
Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; WEB ephesians 5 Paul sets the standard for marriage at a cross. The love commanded here is measured by…
Bible question
Psalms 2:7 I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father. WEB The title has a history. Read where it comes from, then hear it spoken over Jesus, then hear how his…
The Sunday Study
Verse-by-verse teaching with historical context, and a prayer to close. Nothing else in the email.