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Unified Purpose in Marriage: A Biblical Perspective

Explore the profound significance of marital unity as revealed in biblical teachings about love, devotion, and mutual understanding. Discover the divine mission and desires for life and marriage.

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Unified Purpose in Marriage: A Biblical Perspective

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  1. What is your desire and purpose in your life? What is your mission in your marriage?

  2. Genesis 2:23 (ESV) 23 Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”

  3. What is your desire and purpose in your life? What is your mission in your marriage?

  4. Genesis 2:15 (ESV) 15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

  5. Genesis 2:18 (ESV) 18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

  6. Genesis 2:21–22 (ESV) 21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.

  7. Genesis 2:23 (ESV) 23 Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”

  8. Genesis 2:24 (ESV) 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

  9. “Two selfish me’s start learning to think like one unified us.” —Roy Ortlund Marriage and the Mystery of the Gospel

  10. Genesis 3:12 (ESV) 12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.”

  11. Genesis 3:16 (ESV) 16 To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”

  12. Genesis 4:7 (ESV) 7 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.”

  13. Genesis 3:16 (ESV) 16 To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”

  14. What is your desire and purpose in your life? What is your mission in your marriage?

  15. Genesis 3:15 (ESV) 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

  16. Isaiah 54:5–6 (ESV) 5 For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called. 6 For the Lord has called you like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit, like a wife of youth when she is cast off, says your God.

  17. Jeremiah 2:2 (ESV) 2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord, “I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

  18. Deuteronomy 6:5 (ESV) 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

  19. Deuteronomy 6:14–15 (ESV) 14 You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you— 15 for the Lord your God in your midst is a jealous God—lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

  20. Song of Solomon 8:6 (ESV) 6 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord.

  21. Ezekiel 36:26 (ESV) 26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

  22. Hosea 1:2 (ESV) 2 When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.”

  23. Hosea 3:1–3 (ESV) 1 And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.” 2 So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley. 3 And I said to her, “You must dwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you.”

  24. Isaiah 62:4–5 (ESV) 4 You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate, but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married; for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married. 5 For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

  25. Mark 7:6 (ESV) 6 And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, “ ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;

  26. John 3:29 (ESV) 29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.

  27. Matthew 22:29–30 (ESV) 29 But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

  28. “There will be no marriage there [heaven]. But what marriage meant will be there. And the pleasure of marriage, ten to the millionth power, will be there.” —John Piper The Momentary Marriage

  29. What is your desire and purpose in your life? What is your mission in your marriage?

  30. Ephesians 5:25–27 (ESV) 25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

  31. Luke 19:10 (ESV) 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

  32. Matthew 28:19 (ESV) 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

  33. Philippians 1:6 (ESV) 6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

  34. Revelation 21:1–2 (ESV) 1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

  35. Revelation 22:17, 20 (ESV) 17 The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price. . . . 20He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!

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