Daily Gospel

Joshua 24:15

¹⁵ But if you are unwilling to serve the Lord, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord.”

- A united purpose to serve the Lord.

Proverbs 5:15

¹⁵ Drink water from your own well—share your love only with your wife.

Proverbs 5:18-19

¹⁸ Let your wife be a fountain of blessing for you. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. ¹⁹ She is a loving doe, a graceful deer. Let her breasts satisfy you always. May you always be captivated by her love.

Hebrews 13:4

⁴Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

- Faithfulness. Without faithfulness there is no real trust or intimacy.

Matthew 19:4-6

⁴“Haven’t you read the Scriptures?” Jesus replied. “They record that from the beginning ‘God made them male and female.’^{£ 5}And he said, ‘this explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.’^{£ 6}Since they are no longer two but one, let no one separate them, for God has joined them together.”

- Commitment.

Romans 15:1-2

¹We may know that these things make no difference, but we cannot just go ahead and do them to please ourselves. We must be considerate of the doubts and fears of those who think these things are wrong. ² We should please others. If we do what helps them, we will build them up in the Lord.

- Sacrifice.

Romans 15:5-7

⁵ May God, who gives this patience and encouragement, help you live in complete harmony with each other—each with the attitude of Christ Jesus toward the other. ⁶Then all of you can join together with one voice, giving praise and glory to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁷So accept each other just as Christ has accepted you; then God will be glorified.

- Understanding each other’s differences and celebrating them.

Ephesians 5:21-33

²¹ And further, you will submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. ²² You wives will submit to your husbands as you do to the Lord. ²³For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of his body, the church; he gave his life to be her Savior.

- Mutual submission.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

¹ If I could speak in any language in heaven or on earth^£ but didn’t love others, I would only be making meaningless noise like a loud gong or a clanging cymbal. ²If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I knew all the mysteries of the future and knew everything about everything, but didn’t love others, what good would I be? And if I had the gift of faith so that I could speak to a mountain and make it move, without love I would be no good to anybody. ³If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it;^£ but if I didn’t love others, I would be of no value whatsoever.

⁴ Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud ⁵or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. ⁶It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. ⁷Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

⁸Love will last forever, but prophecy and speaking in unknown languages^£ and special knowledge will all disappear. ⁹Now we know only a little, and even the gift of prophecy reveals little! ¹⁰ But when the end comes, these special gifts will all disappear.

¹¹It’s like this: When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child does. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. ¹² Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.^£ All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God knows me now.

¹³ There are three things that will endure—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

- Love.

James 5:16

¹⁶ Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results.

- Communication.

Proverbs 31:31

³¹ Reward her for all she has done. Let her deeds publicly declare her praise.

- A constant desire to build each other up, to enhance each other’s value.

1 Corinthians 7:3

³ The husband should not deprive his wife of sexual intimacy, which is her right as a married woman, nor should the wife deprive her husband.

Song of Songs 1:2-4

²“Kiss me again and again, for your love is sweeter than wine. ³How fragrant your cologne, and how pleasing your name! No wonder all the young women love you! ⁴Take me with you. Come, let’s run! Bring me into your bedroom, O my king.”^£

Young Women of Jerusalem: “How happy we are for him! We praise his love even more than wine.”

Young Woman: “How right that the young women love you!

Song of Songs 12-13

¹²“The king is lying on his couch, enchanted by the fragrance of my perfume. ¹³My lover is like a sachet of myrrh lying between my breasts.

- A healthy sex life.