God’s Design for Marriage

1. Wives should be submissive to their husbands

Ephesians 5:22–23 KJV 1900

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

2. Husbands love your wives as Christ loves the church

Ephesians 5:25–28 KJV 1900

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

We must consider marriage in terms of the doctrine of the atonement.

Life in the Spirit in Marriage Home and Work, 148

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

3. Spouses need to fully commit to their marriage

Ephesians 5:31 KJV 1900

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.