The Ten Commandments
for Couples
1. Put God First. This is your first priority as a couple.
Your second piority of serving each other depends on God being in
first place.
2. Accept no substitutes: it is easy to form an image of
what your spouse should be. You must love what is.
3. Honor each other: Don’t speak each other’s name in
vain: i.e. depreciating the other.
4. Take time for each other: You must have a regular
Sabbath.
5. Honor your parents, you’ll be parents one day. What you
do towards your parents has everything to do with your character and
what you are modeling for your children. Besides that, this is the
first commandment with a promise… long life.
6. Encourage life, don’t murder. It is so easy to slip
into harsh words… killing each other’s spirit.
7. Keep your marriage pure. The affairs start in the
heart.
8. Don’t be a taker but a giver. Our society suffers and
pays a huge price when people steal. Each one justifying what they
are doing. It is the same in relationships. Theft takes place when
one or both people in a marriage say, “I’ve given and given, now it
is time for me to receive.” With that rationale all kinds of
behaviors have been justified.
9. Speak the truth in love. Being truthful doesn’t mean
you share every passing feeling. Speak what is true. Love always
builds.
10. Learn to be content: don’t covet. This is a huge
problem in
America
where the possession of things “the stuff of life” has captured the
incomes of most struggling newly weds thinking that they need to
have in 5 months what it took their parents 30 years to accumulate.
*Adapted from the Ten
Commandments: Exodus 20:3-17
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