August 12, 2022

Ephesians 5:22-33 (HCSB)
Wives and Husbands 22 Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord, 23 for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word. 27 He did this to present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless. 28 In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, 30 since we are members of His body. 31 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. 32 This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.

Don Steele
 Guys, be very careful how you try to use these verses. If you expect your wife to submit to you then you better be willing to give up your life. I really believe the bottom line Paul is saying comes down to Verse 21: Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. If we are all living for Christ then we will want to sacrifice our own wants and needs for each other. Just like Christ did for us.

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