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Put on the New Self, Part 4

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Let’s say you want to do a better job of loving your spouse (Ephesians 5:22-33). List some ideas that would help in that endeavor.

  • Create good habits and stop bad ones

    • Weekend habits that involve both of you.

    • Listen first. Talk after thinking.

    • Patience.

    • Get involved.

    • Let’s say you want to stop gossiping (Romans 1:29). Let’s list more ideas to help with this.

      • Think of yourself as a new person.

        • “I’m the kind of person who first thinks if this is good.”

        • “I’m the kind of person who doesn’t encourage gossip.”

        • Shape your environment so it will help shape you.

          • If there is a particular avenue where you are tempted to gossip, limit or remove it.

          • Create good habits and stop bad ones.

            • Go straight to the person involved instead of talking about them.

            • I Corinthians 13:4-7

            • Don’t rejoice in unrighteousness.

            • Proverbs 10:12

              Put on … purity
              • Romans 13:12-14; Ephesians 4:19-24; 5:3 – Which of these passages were written to Christians? All of them!
              • We need to admit how much of a temptation and problem this is, even among religious people.
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