Role of the Husbands

25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

How does God command husbands to love their wife? A little? On special occasions? After he makes her mad? Only on her birthday? Answer: as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.

look deeply at offering and scarifical love

What this sacrifice was. “He gave Himself for us.” Not only His love, His time, His power, His wisdom, His blood, but Himself, in all the fulness of His life and moral worth.

26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30 because we are members of his body. 31 

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.

33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

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