Marriage: Better, Stronger, Forever 1 Corinthians 7:1-16

You only live once (YOLO) I just needed to get that out of my system Carpe Diem When in Rome... What happens in Vegas... If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

It’s easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission Boys will be boys To each his own It is what it is I’m just being honest

6:12 – “All things are lawful for me” 6:13 – “Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both” 6:18 – “Every sin that a man commits is outside the body.” 7:1 – “It is good for a man not to touch a woman.”

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“It is good for a man not to touch a woman.”

stay Physically intimate ① Enjoy your spouse Proverbs 5:18–19 …rejoice in the wife of your youth. As a loving hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be exhilarated always with her love.

stay Physically intimate ① Enjoy your spouse Song of Solomon 1:16, 2:6 Oh, how handsome you are, my lover! Oh, how delightful you are!... His left hand caresses my head, and his right hand stimulates me.

stay Physically intimate ① Enjoy your spouse Song of Solomon 4:5–6 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle which feed among the lilies. Until the cool of the day when the shadows flee away, I will go my way to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.

“The Human Touch,” Spencer Michael Free ’Tis the human touch in this world that counts. The touch of your hand and mine, Which means far more to the fainting heart Than shelter and bread and wine. For shelter is gone when the night is o’er, And bread lasts only a day. But the touch of the hand And the sound of the voice Sing on in the soul always.

stay Physically intimate ① Enjoy your spouse Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her....

stay Physically intimate ① Enjoy your spouse Ephesians 5:28–29 So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church....

stay Physically intimate ② Please your spouse

stay Physically intimate ② Please your spouse Philippians 2:3–4 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.

stay Physically intimate ③ Protect your spouse Song of Songs college sermon series The Book of Romance by Tommy Nelson Intimacy Ignited by Joseph & Linda Dillow Intimate Issues by Linda Dillow Intended for Pleasure by Ed & Gaye Wheat

stay committed to a Christian spouse Song of Solomon 8:6–7 “Put me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death...many waters cannot quench love, nor will rivers overflow it....”

stay committed to a non-Christian spouse Beloved Unbeliever, Jo Berry Surviving a Spiritual Mismatch in Marriage, Lee and Leslie Strobel

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