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.