Keeping a marriage together is hard work. Making it thrive is even harder. Thankfully, God has filled His Word with principles that breathe life into our unions. Let's look at a few of God’s principles for marriage in Genesis 2:24-25, “24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.” These two short verses contain four essential principles that hold a marriage together. Every healthy marriage I've observed has all four, and every struggling couple I've worked with has had at least one missing or distorted.