Being wise and cautious before marriage,
brings joy and fulfillment in marriage!

Do you constantly question the relationship?

Proverbs 22:3 NLT

A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions.  The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.

Are you in a cycle of sexual sin?

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 NIV

Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Is there consistent drama, daily crisis, or frequent intense “conversations”?

Proverbs 27:4,15-17 NIV

Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

…A quarrelsome wife is like the dripping of a leaky roof in a rainstorm; restraining her is like restraining the wind or grasping oil with the hand.  As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

Is there spiritual equality?

2 Corinthians 6:14-16 NLT

Don’t team up with those who are unbelievers. How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness? What harmony can there be between Christ and the devil? How can a believer be a partner with an unbeliever? And what union can there be between God’s temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God said: “I will live in them and walk among them.  I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Amos 3:3 NLT

Can two people walk together without agreeing on the direction?

Are you on the same maturity level?

Proverbs 13:20 NIV

Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.

Is your relationship guided and encouraged by older believers?

Proverbs 11:14 HCSB

Without guidance, people fall, but with many counselors there is deliverance.