God's Design for Marriage

1. Wives should be submissive to their husbands

Ephesians 5:22 KJV 1900

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Marriage is a covenant consecrated by God.

John Calvin

2. Husbands love your wives as Christ loves the church

Ephesians 5:25–28 NASB95

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;

3. Spouses need to fully commit to their marriage

Ephesians 5:31 NASB95

For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.