Counsel #7 — Loyalty

Picture: Counsel #7 — LoyaltyCR 94.1

Don’t flirt with anyone other than your spouse. Remain faithful to them and to your marriage vows. Refuse to take one step toward an emotional or physical affair. Any time you feel the need to keep another relationship secret from them, you’ve stepped into an emotional affair. Intimacy, whether it’s emotional or physical, is for your spouse alone.CR 94.2

Satan is adept at making temptation overpowering without Christ. You can’t resist by yourself. Ask God for help in strengthening your resolve to stay faithful and resist the temptation of physical or emotional intimacy with someone else.^{[90]https://www.nurturingmarriage.org/values-to-live-by/10-things-loyal-spouses-do} CR 94.3

“Never let go of loyalty and faithfulness. Tie them around your neck; write them on your heart.” Proverbs 3:3 GNTCR 94.4

“There is a sacred circle around every family which should be preserved. No other one has any right in that sacred circle. The husband and wife should be all to each other. The wife should have no secrets to keep from her husband and let others know, and the husband should have no secrets to keep from his wife to relate to others. The heart of his wife should be the grave for the faults of the husband, and the heart of the husband the grave for his wife’s faults.” Ellen White in The Adventist Home, p. 177 CR 94.5

Reflect: Are there any ways that you could be more faithful to your spouse?CR 94.6