S. Michael Houdmann Supporter Got Questions Ministries

The creation of marriage is recorded in Genesis 2:23-24: "The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called "woman," for she was taken out of man." For this rea...

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Jack Gutknecht Supporter ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church

The apostles state clearly and enforce the nuptial (“pertaining to marriage”) duties of husband and wife (Eph. 5:22-33; Col. 3:18, 19; 1 Pet. 3:1-7).--bible.org

The context of Eph. 5:22-33 begins with the previous verse, Eph 5:21, "And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ." Then in the next 3 verses the writer, Paul, deals with the wife being yielded to her husband: "For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church. 24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything."

And the husband is to be devoted to his wife (Ephesians 5:25-32 = 8 verses! [compared to the 3 verses about the wife's duty!]). Ephesians 5:25 says, "For husbands, this mean love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God's word. 27 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. 28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. 29 No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church. 30 And we are members of his body. 31 As the Scriptures say, 'A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.' 32 This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one."

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