Marriage: Women’s Role
1 Corinthians 7
My Presuppositions�(def: something that is assumed in advance or taken for granted)
Marriage is good but difficult because it challenges our selfishness and demands we give up ourselves for the good of another.
(a taste of what Jesus did for us)
The purpose of life is not to make yourself “happy”
Life is not always easy and it will often not go as you planned or hoped. However, God is not surprised by how your life goes.
The Holy Spirit’s power working in us helps us react and live in the face of these struggles and disappointments.
God is growing us in marriage and in singleness.
Matthew 19:10-12
10 The disciples said to him, “If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.” 11 Jesus replied, “Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given.
Matthew 19:10-12
12 For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”
1 Corinthians 7
8 To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single, as I am. 9 But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
1 Corinthians 7:32-35
32 I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. 33 But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, 34 and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord,
1 Corinthians 7:32-35
how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband. 35 I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.
Singleness
Undivided interests.
Requires self-control not to be consumed with sexual passions.
It is better to marry than burn with passion.
Not everyone has been given the gift to live powerfully like that.
(Some may be single for a season)
Husbands should practice: �1 Corinthians 7
�Ephesians 5:22-24�
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
�Curse of sin on the life of women�
Her desire will be to direct & control her husband. But he will rule over her.
Childbearing, childrearing will be difficult, as well as biological fallout from child producing.
�Just before “submit to your own husbands” in Ephesians 5�
20 giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
21 submitting to one another out of reverence (fear) for Christ.
�1 Peter 3�
1 Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, 2 when they see your respectful and pure conduct.
�1 Peter 3�
3 Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— 4 but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.
�1 Peter 3�
5 For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, 6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.
���1 Corinthians 7���
1 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” 2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
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4 For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
�Colossians 3�
12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
�Colossians 3�
14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
�Colossians 3�
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
�Colossians 3�
18 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
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-submit to your own husbands
-wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives
-wives should give to her husband his conjugal rights.
-Adorn yourself with an imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit
�Romans 3:23-24�
23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. 24 Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins.