Principles in Marriage - Sexual Intimacy
By Pastor Kee Won HuhPart of the Singleness, Dating, Marriage & Sexuality series
Description
When God unites a couple in marriage, he calls them into a life of intimacy with each other. One of the first ways the Bible teaches married couples to build intimacy is through sex. The gospel helps us to realize sex in a way that can profoundly deepen intimacy in marriage.
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1 Corinthians 7:2-5
2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. (ESV)
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (ESV)