FAMILY THE FOUNDATION

            Text: Ephesians 5:22-25 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

²⁴ Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

            Ephesians 5:28-31 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

²⁹ For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

³⁰ For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

³¹ For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Divorce

            Malachi 2:16 For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away.

               

            Matthew 5:32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

            Jeremiah 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce;…

           

           

            1 Corinthians 7:15  But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

             

            Christians; Ephesians 5:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

            Neighbors; Matthew 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

            Enemies; Matthew 5:44  But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;