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(1) This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.
(2) He created them male and female, and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created.


As we read through our bible we come across chapters that we sometimes dismiss too quick. Genesis 5 can be one of those. If you go and look at the chapter deeper you can discover something quite amazing.
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(6) With what shall I come before the LORD, And bow myself before the High God?
Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, With calves a year old?
(7) Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, Ten thousand rivers of oil?
Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
(8) He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you
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(13) Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
(14) as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance;
(15) but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
(16) because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy."[3]
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Eph 5:25-26
(25) Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,
(26) that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,

In Ephesians 5 Paul commands us to love our wives as Christ loves the church, but how can we as men, mere mortals, understand what that is?

One of the clues that the Holy Spirit has given us is Song of Solomon, The Song of Songs.

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Heb 13:5-6
(5) Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."
(6) So we may boldly say:

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