Marriage Problem

Principles of Marriage

Introduction

This is a sermon about marriage!

Read the text

1 Corinthians 7:1–7 NLT

Now regarding the questions you asked in your letter. Yes, it is good to abstain from sexual relations. But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband. The husband should fulfill his wife’s sexual needs, and the wife should fulfill her husband’s needs. The wife gives authority over her body to her husband, and the husband gives authority over his body to his wife. Do not deprive each other of sexual relations, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited time so you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. Afterward, you should come together again so that Satan won’t be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control. I say this as a concession, not as a command. But I wish everyone were single, just as I am. Yet each person has a special gift from God, of one kind or another.

#1 The Importance of Abstinence

Abstinence is good outside of marriage

1 Corinthians 7:1 NLT

Now regarding the questions you asked in your letter. Yes, it is good to abstain from sexual relations.

Abstinence is allowed in certain times in marriage

1 Corinthians 7:5 NLT

Do not deprive each other of sexual relations, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited time so you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. Afterward, you should come together again so that Satan won’t be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Sex is an important aspect of a healthy marriage!