Marriage preparation

Acts 13 has nothing to do with marriage. I asked for a verse where God tells a husband to beat bad behavior out of his wife - verbally or physically.

OK - you told me what the wife's responsibility is. But I'll ask again - can you show me one verse that says that a husband must "drive out" ANYTHING from his wife?

Does Christ make His church obey? No. Instead He gave His life for her.

 

I am not individually the church - the church is the corporate body. I individually am not Christ's bride - the entire church is.

The Scriptures that you are speaking of speak of a father/child relationship - not a husband and wife. A husband does not discipline his wife. He is to lay down his life for her.

Can you show me a verse where a husband is told to discipline his wife? To make her do anything? No, you cannot.

 

You keep posting Hebrews 12:6 as a prooftext of your saying that God disciplines the bride. But let's read the passage:

1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

2Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

3For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

4Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

5And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

7If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

8But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

9Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

10For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.


God is speaking to individuals - not the "bride", the church. He does not discipline the church but His children. I don't discipline my family but my children. You cannot say that because God disciplines His children, a husband is to discipline his wife because it it in no Scripture at all. The ONLY thing a husband is to do is to love his wife as much as Christ loved the church - love enough to lay down his life.

So should the husband.

See, your focus is on "husband is the boss and he will make his wife obey" rather than the Scriptural commands that speak to each person. Scripture does not say that a wife is to make her husband do anything and it doesn't say that a husband is to make his wife do anything. Scripture addresses individuals and tells them how they should act. You cannot make your wife respect you - and you certainly won't help her if you act the way you do. A domineering husband does not get respect no matter how much he tells his wife she should give it to him.

You are very good at taking Scripture out of context and using it for your convenience. Hebrews 12:6 says not one thing about the marriage relationship. Look again.

 

See - when you marry the right woman, there's no reason to domineer. I married the right man and I can easily follow him because I know that his heart is focused on God and not me. If a man feels he must master over his wife, he married wrongly.

 

I've always understood this passage to not speak of "weak" as we think of it today but rather more delicate and precious. Similar to the comparison of a precious vase as opposed to a utilitarian bucket. The precious vase will be weaker than the bucket - but it is much more valuable.