Scully	Re: Marital seperation -- the Society's guidelines
	Try Ephesians 5:25, 28, 29: Husbands, continue loving your wives, just as the Christ also loved the congregation and delievered up himself for it. ... In this way husbands ought to be loving their wives as their own bodies.  He who loves his wife loves himself, for no man ever hated his own flesh; but he feeds and cherishes it, as the Christ also does the congregation. and Galatians 5:19-21: Now the works of the flesh are manifest, and they are fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct, idolatry, practice of spiritism, enmities, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, contentions, divisions, sects, envies, drunken bouts, revelries, and things like these.  As to these things I am forewarning you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God's kingdom. then, there's 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Love is long-suffering and kind.  Love is not jealous, it does not brag, does not get puffed up, does not behave indecently, does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked.  It does not keep account of the injury.  It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth.  It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. and 1 Timothy 3:2-12 The overseer should therefore be irreprehensible, a husband of one wife, moderate in habits, sound in mind, orderly, hospitable, qualified to teach, not a drunken brawler, not a smiter, but reasonable, not belligerent, not a lover of money, a man presiding over his household in a fine manner, having children in subjection with all seriousness; (if indeed any man does not know how to preside over his own household how will he take care of God's congregation?) not a newly converted man, for fear that he might get puffed up [with pride] and fall into the judgement passed upon the Devil.  Moreover, he should have a fine testimony from people on the outside, in order that he might not fall into reproach and a snare of the Devil. Ministerial servants should likewise be serious, not double-tongued, not giving themselves to a lot of wine, not greedy of dishonest gain, holding the sacred secret of the faith with a clean conscience. Also, let them be tested as to fitness first, then let them serve as ministers, as they are free from accusation. Women should likewise be serious, not slanderous, moderate in habits, faithful in all things. Let ministerial servants be husbands of one wife, presiding in a fine manner over children and their own households. Love, Scully
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