Consequences Of A Bad Marriage

What then are the consequences of a bad marriage? What happens when a
couple does not succeed in their marriage?

Your Christian Testimony Is Affected
"For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you…"
-Romans 2:24
When a Christian family fails, it gives unbelievers room to blaspheme the name
of God. When your unbelieving neighbours hear you and your wife fighting and
quarreling everyday, calling your children all manner of ungodly names, or your
children are typical examples of what the Bible refers to as "unruly", your
Christian testimony is actually what is being affected. How will you witness to
them or invite them to church, when they are aware of the situation in your
family? There is nothing to emulate in your family.

As a man, if you shy away from your covenant responsibilities in the home -such
as the provision of basic necessities of life, how do you expect the unbelievers
around you to accept your Christian testimony? If a man travels out of town just
at the point when his wife is about to put to bed or his children are about to
resume at school, making no provisions whatsoever for them, what kind of
testimony does he have? These affect his Christian testimony negatively.

It Hinders Answers to Prayers
"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."
-1 Peter 3:7