Anthony Gammage – Various Proverbs
Sermon Quotes
Proverbs 2:16–17; 1:8-9; 5:18-19; 14:1; 31:20; 21:9; 17:9; 19:13-14
[16] So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman,
from the adulteress with her smooth words,
[17] who forsakes the companion of her youth
and forgets the covenant of her God.
[8] Hear, my son, your father’s instruction,
and forsake not your mother’s teaching,
[9] for they are a graceful garland for your head
and pendants for your neck.
[18] Let your fountain be blessed,
and rejoice in the wife of your youth…
be intoxicated always in her love.
[1] The wisest of women builds her house,
but folly with her own hands tears it down.
[20] She opens her hand to the poor
and reaches out her hands to the needy.
[9] It is better to live in a corner of the housetop
than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
[9] Whoever covers an offense seeks love,
but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
[13] A foolish son is ruin to his father,
and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
[14] House and wealth are inherited from fathers,
but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Genesis 1:26-27
[26] Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
[27] So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
[28] And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 2:18–25
[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.”
[22] And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. [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.”
[24] Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. [25] And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
Matthew 19:6
[6] So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Ephesians 5:25, 32
[25] Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her…[32] This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
1 Corinthians 7:32–34
[32] I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. [33] But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, [34] and his interests are divided.
1 Corinthians 7:17
[17] Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.
1. We affirm that marriage is to be between one man and one woman (Gen. 2:18-25; Matt. 19:4-6;).
2. Marriage is also a God-ordained picture of the differentiated relationship between Christ and the Church (Eph. 5:22-33; Rev. 19:6-10).
Ephesians 5:29
[29] For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,
Proverbs 1:8–9
[8] Hear, my son, your father’s instruction,
and forsake not your mother’s teaching,
[9] for they are a graceful garland for your head
and pendants for your neck.
Proverbs 6:20
[20] My son, keep your father’s commandment,
and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
Proverbs 5:18–19
[18] Let your fountain be blessed,
and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
[19] a lovely deer, a graceful doe.
Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight;
be intoxicated always in her love.
Proverbs 21:19
[19] It is better to live in a desert land
than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.
Proverbs 17:14
[14] The beginning of strife is like letting out water,
so quit before the quarrel breaks out.
Proverbs 20:3
[3] It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife,
but every fool will be quarreling.
Proverbs 12:4
[4] An excellent wife is the crown of her husband,
but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.