Marriage Infidelity, Genesis 2:24

This post concerns marriage infidelity.

Marriage Infidelity discusses an attitude to ensure faithfulness in our marriages.

Statistics show that about one in five marriages will have to deal with unfaithfulness or adultery. The Bible shows that this problem exists as a major violation of what God desires.

God directed how a marriage should function after giving Eve to Adam, Genesis 2:24. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”

When Jesus discussed divorce, he added to this fundamental law of God, Matthew 19:6. “…they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

This shows how God designed marriage—one man and one woman for life. Some of the people follow this rule as designed by God. Others do not.

Including this in the ten commandments for the Israelites—God’s chosen people—shows its importance and how God felt about this pattern, Exodus 20:17. “… you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife…”

Thus, in the midst of prohibition to stealing, God said one should not steal someone else’s spouse. The violator would receive severe punishment, Leviticus 20:10. “If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.”

Proverbs 7 warns against the seductions offered by an adulteress, Proverbs 7:19; 21. “For my husband …not at home; he has gone on a long journey…

…With much seductive speech she persuades him…”

  Let us avoid similar speeches and someone else’s spouse.

A powerful key for us to avoid infidelity lies in our mental respect and obedience to God’s will for our marriages. This predisposition to fidelity should exist in our minds if we really want to please God and go to heaven.

The importance of this post lies in us learning how God wants our marriages to function.

So, what did we learn?

1.God designed marriage to be one man and one woman for life.

2.Determination to follow and obey God provides the key to avoiding infidelity in marriage.

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