FOR HUSBANDS AND WIVES
TEN COMMANDMENTS
FOR HUSBANDS AND WIVES
FOR HUSBANDS:
1. You shall not take your wife for granted, but will honour and respect her as your equal (1 Pet. 3:7)
2. Your highest allegiance, except to God, shall be to your wife, not your relatives (Gen. 2:24)
3. You shall frequently tell your wife how important she and valuable she is to you (Phil 2:3; Prov. 31:10-11)
4.You shall hold your wife's love by the same means that won it (Song of Sol. 5:10-16)
5. You shall actively establish family discipline with your wife's help (Eph. 6:4)
6. Remember to do the little things for your wife when you say you will (Mt. 5:37)
7. Keep your eyes on your wife, not your neighbours (Prov. 5:15-20; Job. 31:1; Jer.5:8)
8. You shall make every effort to see things from your wife's point of view (Gen. 21:12)
9. You shall not fail to kiss your wife and tell her that you love her (Song of Sol 8:1;Eph. 5:25)
10. You shall not be stingy with your wife when it comes to her needs (Esther 5:3; Eph. 5:28-29).
FOR WIVES:
1. Expect not your husband to give you as many luxuries as your father has given you after many years of hard labour (Phil. 4:11; Amos 4:1)
2. You shall work hard to build your house with the husband that you have, not fantasizing about "the one that could have been" (Prov. 14:1)
3. You shall not nag or continually complain (Prov. 27:15; 21:19).
4. You shall coddle your husband and be a warm wife (1 Cor. 7:3-5)
5. Remember that the frank approval of your husband is more to you than the side glances of many strangers (Ezek.16:32; 2 Pet. 2:14)
6. You shall not yell at your husband but will be gentle and of a quiet spirit (1 Pet. 3:1-4)
7. Permit no one to assure you that you are having a "hard time" of it (1 Pet. 5:9)
8. You shall not fail to dress up for your husband with an eye to please him, as you did before marriage (Song of Sol 4:9-11)
9. You shall submit to your husband from your heart and allow him to be the head of the household (Col. 3:18; 1 Pet. 3:6; Eph. 5:33)
10. You shall assure your husband and others that he is the greatest man alive (Phil 2:3; Song of Sol 5:9-16)
Author: Steve Rudd (Adapted slightly)