Outline the Bibles teaching on love, sex and marriage explaining the importance of the marriage vows for the Christian couple and the difficulties which may arise.

Regarding marriage the bible says many thing about marriage but one of them is that marriage should be permanent, in Matthew 19 it says:”God has joined the two together, so no one should separate them” I think that this is a very good verse to relate to in a marriage as in tells you exactly how marriage is meant to be.  It also states that there are different roles for husbands and wives in a marriage it says in 1 Corinthians: “The husband should gives his wife all that he owes her as a wife, and the wife should give her husband all that she owes him as a wife. The wife does not have full rights over her own body; her husband shares them, and the husband does not have full rights over his own body; his wife shares them.” In Ecclesiastes 4 it teaches that ”two are better off than one” meaning that marriage is better than being single, and it says “A believer should not marry a non-believer” in 2 Corinthians 6,because good and bad do not belong together.  

        When a couple get married on their wedding day they make marriage vows to one another saying that they will be with each other forever, however some couples don’t really understand the vows they are making and the difficulties which may take place. In making the vow the couple say they will be together “For better, for worse” what if one of them cheats or is unfaithful to the other “In sickness and in health” what will they do if one of them becomes seriously ill? “For richer for poorer” what will they do if they get into financial difficulties? “Till death do us part” what will the other do if one of them dies suddenly? All these points should be taken into consideration before they are prepared to make the vows and they should really think about what they would do if they were in one of those situations. Now people don’t think as much about these vows and don’t really think what they are about and jus think they are just what you have to do when you are getting married, but you do really have to think about these vows in order for your marriage to last, as the bible teaches what marriage is meant to. In the case of a Christian couple they tend to take the vows much more seriously indeed so do many other non-Christian couples but Christians not only have to think weather the marriage is right for them but also weather God wants it or not. In some cases a Christian couple may find it easier to keep the vows as they may find their faith helps them to do so, but they also may find it harder as if they realise the person the yare with isn’t how they expected to be then they know that getting a divorce isn’t what they believe in or maybe even what they want, but might be the only solution.

Overall there are many different things to think about before getting and that making vows is also a very big thing to do and they should not just be taken lightly and think they don’t really matter in a marriage when they are the vital part.