Ephes. 5:25-30 (NLT)
And you husbands must love your wives with the same love Christ showed the church. He gave up his life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and God's word. He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man is actually loving himself when he loves his wife. No one hates his own body but lovingly cares for it, just as Christ cares for his body, which is the church. And we are his body.
Paul devotes twice as many words to telling husbands to love their wives as to telling wives to submit to their husbands. How should a man love his wife?
(1) He should be willing to sacrifice everything for her.
(2) He should make her well-being of primary importance.
(3) He should care for her as he cares for his own body.
No wife needs to fear submitting to a man who treats her in this way.
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