This article is revised and updated by BCC Counselor Matt Black (originally from Richard Baxter) as part of our new series on the family. In this series, our counselors are examining various difficulties of family life and sharing ways to pursue healthier family dynamics.
It is a great responsibility of husbands and wives to live in quietness and peace and avoid all occasions of anger and discord.
Because this duty is so important, we will consider the necessity of peace in your marriage relationship and then give more specific applications as to how to live in peace in the home.
Why to Avoid Fighting in Marriage
1. Marital Strife is Painful
Refrain from anger and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself, it tends only to evil. – Psalm 37:8
Your fighting will be your pain, and the vexation of your lives. It will be like an infection, or a wound, or like a terrible fracture in your own bodies which will cause you pain until it is carefully set and healed.
Pride must be put down for strife to disappear. While you are proud you will have no help from God, since “God resists the proud but gives grace to
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