Discussion References Weeks 16 – 21

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Week 16 Listening for Learning

James 1:19

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry… NIV

Week 17 Happiness Is Up to You

Galatians 6:4-5

Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else, for each one should carry his own load. NIV

Week 18 Biblical Teaching on Marriage (Part 1 of 2)

Galatians 3:28; Ephesians 5:22-24; Ephesians 5:25

There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. NIV

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body,of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. NIV

Husbands,love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her… NIV

Week 19 Biblical Teaching on Marriage (Part 2 of 2)

2 Timothy 3:16

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,… NIV

Week 20 The Growth Stage of Marriage

Ephesians 4:14-16

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head,that is,Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. NIV

Week 21 Children and Marriage (Part 1 of 3)

Proverbs 11:29

He who brings trouble on his family will inherit only wind,… NIV