a covenant word which means you are giving 100 percent of yourself good and bad to another soul and acknowledging the same in return...and if you are a person who, from your past experiences, understands the value in personal growth, specifically growth for good works either internal or external, lets say, which is the only direction i am referring to, ever; then, but most likely before you got married, you had seen good internal qualities from your spouse and is the reason you are attracted to them...what i am referring to is just how scripturally important the giving and taking of a spouses maturities (talents) are in our personal growth to worthiness to be in His Family eternally... When this discipline is engrained, you can then take this to the level of luke 3:4-6 and proverbs 2:1-5 but without as serious of a covenant with your Creator as initially your spouse, things will not unfold as they scripturally should...