Discussion References Weeks 1 – 5

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Week 1: Constructive Confrontation

Ephesians 4:21-24

You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. NIV

Week 2: Whose Truth?

Proverbs 15:22; Psalms 32:8; 2 Timothy 3:16-17

Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed. NIV

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you. NIV

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. NIV

Week 3: Marriage As a Partnership

Matthew 19:6

So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate. NIV

Week 4: Planning for the Marriage Journey

Colossians 2:5

For though I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit and delight to see how orderly you are and how firm your faith in Christ is. NIV

Week 5: Giving and Receiving in Marriage

Acts 20:35; Colossians 3:18-19; Hebrews 4:15-16

In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” NIV

Wives, understand and support your husbands by submitting to them in ways that honor the Master. Husbands, go all out in love for your wives. Don’t take advantage of them. (The Message)

Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. NIV