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Lesson 28 - Bible Instructions for Husbands and Wives. 

The Purpose of Marriage 

Ishmael (Genesis 21).

 1.Companionship; Completion.

   "And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should
   be alone: I will make him an help meet for him" (Genesis
   2:18). 

 2.Multiplication of people - to have children.

   "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God
   created he him. Male and female created he them. And God
   blessed them, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,
   and replenish the earth..." (Genesis 1:27-28).

   "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare
   Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord" (Genesis
   4:1).

   "Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the
   womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty
   man, so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath
   his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they
   shall speak with the enemies in the gate" (Psalm 127:3-5).

 3.To raise up a godly seed - godly descendants.

   "...She is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant And
   did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit.
   And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed
   Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal
   treacherously against the wife of his youth" (Malachi 2:14-15).

 4.To subdue and dominate God's creation.

   "...subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
   over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth
   upon the earth" (Genesis 1:28).

 5.To be an illustration of Christ and the Church 

	Husband (Christ); Wife (the church) 
	An illustration in relationship, in love, in care, in purity,
	and in purpose. 

God's Instructions To Husbands. Some Dos And Don'ts. 

 1."In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return
   unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou
   art, and unto dust shalt thou return" (Genesis 3:19). 
 2."A man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave
   unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh" (Genesis 2:24).
   Also recorded in Ephesians 5:31. 
 3."Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing" (Proverbs 18:22). 
 4."Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of
   the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun,
   all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and
   in thy labor which thou takest under the sun" (Ecclesisastes
   9:9). "Rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let her be as a loving
   hind and a -pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all
   times: and be thou ravished always with her love" (Proverbs
   5:18-19). 
 5."The Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy
   youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously...Take
   heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against
   the wife of his youth. For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith
   that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his
   garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your
   spirit, that ye deal not treacherously" (Malachi 2:14-16). 
                           
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