MB Concepts in Christian Scripture(<A HREF="http://www.marriagebuilders.com/graphic/mbi3900_rules.html" TARGET=_blank>The Four Rules for a Successful Marriage</A>)<P><LI> <B><A HREF="http://www.marriagebuilders.com/graphic/mbi3902_rules.html" TARGET=_blank>The Rule of Protection:</A></B> Avoid being the cause of your spouse's unhappiness.<BR>(see <A HREF="http://www.marriagebuilders.com/forum/Forum29/HTML/000293.html" TARGET=_blank>Love Busters</A>)<P><LI> <B><A HREF="http://www.marriagebuilders.com/graphic/mbi3901_rules.html" TARGET=_blank>The Rule of Care:</A></B> Meet your spouse's most important <A HREF="http://www.marriagebuilders.com/graphic/mbi3300_needs.html" TARGET=_blank>Emotional Needs</A>.<BR>(see <A HREF="http://www.marriagebuilders.com/forum/Forum29/HTML/000292.html" TARGET=_blank>Emotional Needs</A>)<P>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------<P><LI> <B><A HREF="http://www.marriagebuilders.com/graphic/mbi3904_rules.html" TARGET=_blank>The Rule of Time:</A></B> Take time to give your spouse undivided attention.<P><B>Judges 16:15-16</B> - ... "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times...and when she pressed him hard with her words <B>day after day</B>…<P><B>Psalm 95:7</B> - ...O that <B>today</B> you would hearken to his voice!<P><B>Ecclesiastes 3:8</B> - …a <B>time</B> to love, and a <B>time</B> to hate…<P><B>Ecclesiastes 12:1,7</B> - Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before… the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.<P><B>Matthew 25:13</B> - Watch therefore, for you know neither the <B>day</B> nor the <B>hour</B>.<P>Thoughts:<BR>"...Our lives are measured by <B>TIME</B>, in the course of which we change, grow old and, as with all living beings on earth... remembering our mortality helps us realize that we have only a limited <B>TIME</B> in which to bring our lives to fulfillment" #1007<P>"…for it is charity(Love), as queen of all virtues, all commandments, all counsels, and, in short, of all laws and all Christian actions that gives to all of persons their rank, order, value and <B>TIME</B>....[St. Francis de Sales.] " #1974<P>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------<P><LI> <B><A HREF="http://www.marriagebuilders.com/graphic/mbi3903_rules.html" TARGET=_blank>The Rule of Honesty:</A></B> Be totally open and honest with your spouse.<P><B>Genesis 30:33</B> - So my <B>honesty</B> will answer for me later, <P><B>Genesis 42:11</B> - We are all sons of one man, we are <B>honest</B> men, your servants are not spies."<P><B>Proverbs 8:6-7</B> - Hear, for I will speak noble things, and from my lips will come what is right; for my mouth will utter <B>truth</B>; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.<P><B>Proverbs 19:9</B> - A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who utters lies will perish.<P><B>Proverbs 23:23</B> - Buy <B>truth</B>, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.<P><B>John 8:32</B> - and you will know the <B>truth</B>, and the <B>truth</B> will make you free."<P><B>1 John 1:6</B> - If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not live according to the <B>truth</B>;<P><B>1 John 1:8</B> - If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the <B>truth</B> is not in us.<P><B>3 John 1-4</B> - No greater joy can I have than this, to hear that my children follow the <B>truth</B>.<P><B>Matthew 5:37</B> - Let what you say be simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything more than this comes from evil.<P><B>Luke 11:4</B> - and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive every one who is indebted to us; and lead us not into temptation."<P><B>Galatians 5:1</B> - For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.<P>Thoughts:<BR>'Men could not live with one another if there were not mutual confidence that they were being truthful to one another.'[St. Thomas Aquinas] #2469<P>"Man tends by nature toward the TRUTH. He is obliged to honor and bear witness to it: 'It is in accordance with their dignity that all men, because they are persons . . . are both impelled by their nature and bound by a moral obligation to seek the TRUTH... They are also bound to adhere to the TRUTH once they come to know it and direct their whole lives in accordance with the demands of TRUTH.' #2467<P>"TRUTH as uprightness in human action and speech is called truthfulness, sincerity, or candor. TRUTH or truthfulness is the virtue which consists in showing oneself true in deeds and truthful in words, and in guarding against duplicity, dissimulation, and hypocrisy. " #2468<P>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------<P>Back to <A HREF="http://www.marriagebuilders.com/forum/Forum29/HTML/000288.html" TARGET=_blank> MB Concepts in Christian Scripture</A><p>[This message has been edited by NSR (edited August 26, 2000).]
