Hebrews 13:4 (ESV) —
4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be
undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
MARRIAGE
HELD IN HONOR AMONG ALL
(1) The Design Of Marriage
Genesis 2:18–25 (ESV) — 18 Then the Lord
God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a
helper fit for him.” 19 Now out of
the ground the Lord God had formed
every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the
man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living
creature, that was its name. 20 The
man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every
beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. 21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while
he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made
into a woman and brought her to the man. 23
Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she
shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and
hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both
naked and were not ashamed.
Genesis 1:27 (ESV) — 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of
God he created him; male and female he created them.
(2) The
Declaration Of Marriage
Ephesians 5:31–33 (ESV) — 31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother
and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This mystery is profound, and I am
saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let
the wife see that she respects her husband.
THE
MARRIAGE BED BE UNDEFILED
1 Timothy 4:1–3 (ESV) — 1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times
some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and
teachings of demons, 2 through the
insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, 3 who forbid marriage…
FOR
GOD WILL JUDGE THE SEXUALLY IMMORAL AND ADULTEROUS.
1 Corinthians 6:9–11, 18-20 (ESV) — 9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom
of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11
And such were some of you. BUT you were washed, you were sanctified,
you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the
Spirit of our God.
