Understanding The Vows
To have and to hold from this day forward
-Genesis 2:24 – Therefore shall
a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave/be joined unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
-Matthew
19:9 – Whoever divorces his wife except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery;
and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.
-I
Corinthians 7:16 -- If the unbeliever departs, let him depart; a brother or sister is not under bondage in such cases.
For better or for worse
-I
Corinthians 13: 4 – Charity/Love suffereth long, and is kind .
-I Corinthians 13:7,8 – “Charity/Love” beareth all things,
believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity/Love never
faileth .
For richer or for poorer & In sickness and in health
-Job
1:21 – Job said, “naked came I out of my mother’s
womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken
away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
-Job
1:7 – So went Satan forth
from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
-Ephesians
5:28, 29 – So ought men
to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth
himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth
it, even as the Lord the church.
To love and to cherish, till death us do part
-Matthew
19:5, 6 – For this cause
shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave/be joined to his wife: and
they twain shall be one flesh; wherefore they are no longer two, but one flesh. What
therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
