Amazing marriages aren’t _________________!

Avoid _____________________

1 Peter 3:8-9 Message Paraphrase
Be agreeable, be sympathetic, be loving, be compassionate, be humble. That goes for all of you, no exceptions. No retaliation. No sharp-tongued sarcasm. Instead, bless—that’s your job, to bless. You’ll be a blessing and also get a blessing.

Be __________, Not __________

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 NLT
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude… 

Colossians 4:6 NIV
Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

Stop _________ Start _________

1 Corinthians 2:11 NLT
No one can know a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit.

Proverbs 18:2 ESV
A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.

Pray _____ and _______ Each Other

James 5:16 NLT
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 produces wonderful results.

Understand Your _______________

Ephesians 5:33 HCSB
To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.