What does the bible say about how a man should treat his wife?
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Husbands love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for it.
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Yes, God said for women to obey thier husbands and to not divorce unless the husband caused you to sin or was unfaithful.\n\nGod Bless You,\nYour Sister in Christ,\nHolly
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Leviticus 18:6-18 (New International Version)\nNew International Version (NIV)\nCopyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society\n\n    \n\n 6 " 'No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD. \n\n 7 " 'Do not dishonor your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; do not have relations with her. \n\n 8 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your father's wife; that would dishonor your father. \n\n 9 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere. \n\n 10 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter; that would dishonor you. \n\n 11 " 'Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father's wife, born to your father; she is your sister. \n\n 12 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your father's sister; she is your father's close relative. \n\n 13 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative. \n\n 14 " 'Do not dishonor your father's brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt. \n\n 15 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; do not have relations with her. \n\n 16 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your brother's wife; that would dishonor your brother. \n\n 17 " 'Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness. \n\n 18 " 'Do not take your wife's sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.\n\n------------\n  it is also against the law
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There's no mention of it in the bible - but a heck of lot is (see Song of Songs) as God meant for us to enjoy sex (obviously within the marriage convenant).  \n\nIn these circumstances (where it is silent) if you have a clear conscience before God then it's fine.  if you don't, then it's not.\n\nIn our case, my wife is uncomfortable giving me oral, so she doesn't and I won't force her to.  I am happy to give her oral (and she's happy to receive) so we do.
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Pray for a wife.............I applaud your loyalty an God does too. But according to the Bible porn is a sin. I would strongly recommend you start thinking about marriage and don't just rush into it. Good luck and God Bless.
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It also says for the husbands to love their wives as themselves.\nSo if a wife doesn't want to have sex and the husband makes her or places a guilt trip on her then he is NOT loving her as the Bible says.\nIt's a two way street. Many try to take one verse from the Bible to confirm their wants and desires...the Bible can't be read like that!\n\nThe Bible also says that we were given a sex drive to benefit our spouse, not ourselves. God did not make sex to be a selfish act, but rather a selfless act. WE are to place the others needs above our own. So if we place the others needs above our own, we wouldn't force another into sex to meet our own needs and desires. \n\nSo with all that said, Sex, according to the Bible is a gift to the married couple and should be used as a means of connecting intimately. This can't be done if one of the partners is not interested at that time. \n\nHowever,sex is important and gives us the greatest connections possible if both parters are willing and ready.
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God teaches us that the man is the head of the  house and the woman should submit her self to her husband however this does not mean that she should bow down to him either . She should walk beside him . God made woman from Adams rib (from his side) . So therefore she should walk beside him through life. she should be able to make decisions but if its a major decision her husband should make the decision.
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Divorce- \n" 'It has been said, "Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce."[ref. Deut. 24:1] But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.' "  \n - Matt. 5:31-32 \n\nHomosexuality - \n\n"For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.\n\nTherefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.\n\nBecause of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."\n\n- Rom. 1:21-27\n\n\nDouble-standard? I don't think so. Are there certain actions that are not condoned? Certainly. But in a true Christian setting all people will be welcomed. They are in my church & my circle of friends. How can we expect Christ to forgive us for our shortcomings when we won't forgive others? The problem is some judge instaeda of giving & find fault instead of accepting.\n\n\nUpdate - \nMy opinion on why? Because the church has adopted the world's ways rather than relying on the Bible and made excuses for itself. We sin - we make mistakes. But 50% is not mistake - that's the culture.
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Not true at all! Where did you get that from?\n\nRead the Song of Solomon and I Corinthians 7:1-9 sometime.\n\n\nMore:\n\nQuestion:  "Is it wrong for a married couple to have sex just for pleasure?"\n\n \n\nAnswer:  Almost an entire book in the Old Testament is dedicated to the subject of passion and sexual pleasure. Song of Solomon is so detailed in its intention of sexual pleasure in marriage that allegories were used to tone it down and Hebrew boys couldn't read it until they were 12, when they became men. God's intention of sex in marriage is clearly intended to be pleasurable. 1 Corinthians 7:3-5 talks about not abstaining from sex in marriage, "But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. The husband is to fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does, and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control."\n\n \n\nThe feelings of sexual longings and pleasure during sex were created by God and marriage was created to fulfill that pleasure. What Paul is saying is to direct those feelings to your spouse and no other and make sure that they are fulfilled within your marriage relationship not outside of it. Notice that Paul says if one of the partners is not living up to their spouses expectations, whether it be pleasure or time, then you both need to bring it before God so that one of you doesn't try to find fulfillment outside of that marriage relationship. Because of the existence of porn and the perversion of sex over the years, many people (especially Christians) get the idea that pleasurable sex is wrong. We sometimes forget that God fashioned us for sex and created the emotions to go with it, pleasure was intended. Don't let Satan and his world keep you from enjoying your spouse and or consumed with it so that you fall into the counterfeit pleasure of sex that the world offers. God's pleasure is real and satisfying, Satan's is counterfeit and empty.
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Sure it's possible to love both women in different ways. But a husband should remember that when he got married, these verses apply to his life now.\n\nTherefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.  Genesis 2:24 \n\nIn other words, his wife should be the primary focus of his love and he should...\n\nIn the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,  Ephesians 5:28-29
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I knew I was ready to marry my wife when I knew that we could work through anything that came our way. Love is more than just a feeling. Sometimes the feeling isn't there, but the commitment to stay faithful until death still is. I would recommend a book that was actually intended to help people understand the Bible better. It's called "The Four Loves" and is written by C.S. Lewis. It explores the four Greek words that are translated "love" in the Bible. If you can honestly say that you have all four of those loves for one person, then you know that you have found true love.
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A WOMEN SHOULD BE TREATED WITH RESPECT, LOVE ,TENDERNESS . WE ARE THE MOST PRECIOUS THING IN THE WORLD .BECUASE WE CAN GIVE LIFE .SO WE SHOULD BE TREATED THE WAY WE TREAT OTHERS.
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You are exactly right.And that is what the bible teaches.Man is to be the leader of the household and his decisions should stand firm.The wife should be silent in the home and in the church.Of course this view will reap criticism from the new world order,but society changes and not the words of the bible
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Well, there’s only a few hints in the New Testament. You decide what they mean:\nJesus comments divorce: "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. 9 I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery." (Matt 19.8-9, pp. Mark 10.1-12)\nPaul, Romans 7: So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man. (Rom 7)\nGodly leaders had special rules, though believers should fellow their example: Phil 3.17; 4.9; 1 Thess 1.6,7; 2 Thess 3.7,9; 1 Tim 4.12; Tit 2.7; 1 Pet 5.3; 1 Cor 4.6; 1 Cor 11.1.\nAnyway, these rules were made in a Bedouin society thousands of years ago. So why worry about them today? These societies suppressed women. And today, polygamy is only allowed in very macho countries where women has no rights at all, like Saudi Arabia and other conservative countries in the Middle East. In most modern societies polygamy is not allowed.
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Ephesians 5:31 So again I say, a man must love his wife as a part of himself; and the wife must see to it that she deeply respects her husband-obeying, praising and honoring him.\n\nI was reading some self help type book and came across this verse men love his wife - wife respect your husband.  I have read the Bible completely ten times and did not remember that part of the verse and looked it up and sure enough it was there\n\nThis dawning that my husband truly needed me to respect him, I did things for him out of love but that was not as important to him as showing respect for his decisions.  It freed up a lot of things within our marriage.
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Matthew 5:27-30:\n"You have heard that it was said, `Do not commit adultery.'  But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.  If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.  And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.\n\nProverbs 6:25-26:\nDo not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes, for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.\n\nColossians 3:5-6:\nPut to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.  Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.\n\n1 Thessalonians 4:3-8:\nIt is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;  that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable,  not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God;  and that in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him. The Lord will punish men for all such sins, as we have already told you and warned you.  For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.  Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.
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Many have answered your question, but few have answered by the Bible.\n\n1TIMOTHY 3\n1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.\n2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;\n3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;\n4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;\n5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)\n6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.\n7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.\n\nA "bishop" is a pastor. As verse one clarifies, a bishop must be a "man". Such as in marriage, the man always represents Christ. Also, the woman is of the man, and the man is not of the woman. If God wanted women to lead, He would have made the head. This is confirmed in by Christ's word:\n\n1 Corinthians 11:\n8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.\n9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.\n10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.\n11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.\n\n\nFor those of you who base the truth on what congregations and/or denominations are doing, that is dangerous. Their are many congregations and denominations, but only one true doctrine of Christ:\n\nEphesians 4:\n4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;\n5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,\n6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.\n7 But unto every one \n\nNote how is states "...one faith...". The doctrine of God is never to be comprimised. Disobeying just a bit, is equal, in Christ's eyes, as disobeying it all. This means that every verse in the Scriptures, wheather I or any other agrees with it or not, must be honoured and objeyed. To call one's self a desciple and/or believer in Christ, and contradict His doctrine is nothing short of hypocrisy. Because of hypocrites, the world disrespects Christ and His Church.\n\nIn addition, the doctrine of Christ remains constant. Christ does not change with any movement, including feminism. The doctrine of Christ should never be altered or compramised for neither men, women, majorities, minorities, old, young, rich, or poor. Any congregation or man that teachies contrary to the doctrine of Christ is in apostasy, and will answer to Christ. Even as Paul explained:\n\nGalatians 1:\n6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:\n7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.\n8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.\n9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.\n\nIf anyone claims to know a woman, be it a relative or not, this woman may have been appointed by man, or even by herself. Nonetheless, not by God. God does not contradict His own doctrine, nor compramise it. One topic which confuses many, including women, is equality. All are equal in the Church, but all do not have the same tasks and offices:\n\nI Corinthians 12:\n27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.\n28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.\n29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers