AND YOUR VALENTINE?
FATHER, WHAT IS A WIFE?
PRICELESS
Proverbs 19:14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
TREASURE
Proverbs 18:22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
JOY
Proverbs 5:18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
LOYAL
Ecclesiastes 9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
REVERENCE
I Peter 3:7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
BALANCE
Ephesians 5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
STABILITY
I Corinthians 5:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, ...
SACRIFICE
I Corinthians 7:34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
GOD'S GIFT
Genesis 2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
MOTHER, WHAT IS A HUSBAND?
LOVE
Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
LEADER
Joshua 24:15 ... as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
HUMBLE
Mathew 1:19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
AMBITIOUS
I Samuel 18:25-27 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, ... it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired. Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
VALIANT
Genesis 29:7,8,10 ...water ye the sheep, and go and feed them. And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep. And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
SECURITY
I Samuel 30:17,18 And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: ... And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.
REPENTANT
Mathew 1:24 Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
FORGIVING
Ephesians 4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
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