Model Marriage by Bishop Dag Heward Mills

Model Marriage

Speak the Truth in Love

1. Speak the truth by all means, but speak it in love.^3

This means:

(a) Be careful how you communicate what you have to say.^4

(b) Be careful when you communicate what you have to say.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

Proverbs 25:11

A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season,

how good is it!

Proverbs 15:23

The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how

to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by

morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

Isaiah 50:4

2. Do not be carried away by your emotional distress.^5

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is

good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Ephesians 4:29

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how

ye ought to answer every man.

Colossians 4:6

I said, I will answer also my part, I also will show mine opinion. For I am full of

matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. Behold, my belly is as wine which

hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles. I will speak, that I may be

refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.

Job 32:17-20