Series: Proverbs For Your Love Life
Let Love Cover Conflict NOT "Cut Discomfort Out of Your Life"
Doug Fields
Better to live on the corner of a roof
than to share a house with a nagging wife.
(Proverbs 25:24)
Better a dry crust with peace
than a house full of feasting with strife.
(Proverbs 17:1)
Charm can be deceiving, and beauty fades away,
but a woman who honors the LORD deserves to be praised.
(Proverbs 31:30 CEV)
Hatred stirs up conflicts,
but love covers all offenses.
(Proverbs 10:12)
Option 1: You can stir it up
Honor belongs to the person who ends a dispute,
but any fool can get himself into a quarrel.
(Proverbs 20:3)
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife, and they become one. (Genesis 2:24 GNT)
Option 2: You can cover it
Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. (Psalm 32:1 ESV)
REPAIR is expected…and RECONNECTION is the norm.
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. (1 Peter 4:8 NIV)
Remember the Cross…before you cross them.