God’s Design For Marriage

#1 - Wives should be submissive to their husbands

Ephesians 5:22–23 NIV

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.

The fact that we have become Christians does not mean that we shall be automatically right in all we think and in all we do.

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David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#2 - Husbands love your wives as Christ loves the Church

Ephesians 5:25–28 NIV

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

#3 - Spouses need to fully commit to their marriage

Ephesians 5:31 NIV

“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”