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In any good marriage, the husband is called to love his wife as Christ loves the church, regardless of whether she submits to him or reverences him: and the wife is called to submit to and reverence her husband as the church submits to and reverences Christ. Read Ephesians 5:22-33. A godly marriage is a picture of the relationship between Christ and his church.
A wife is to be in subjection to her husband (while drawing the line at any attempts to violate her chastity) even if her husband does not obey the word (i.e. is not born again, or also, if he does not love her as Christ loves the church) so that without the word but simply by her change of life, she may testify to her husband the reality of the Christian message. See 1 Peter 3:1-7 for the lowdown.
As a husband I realize that for me to love my wife as Christ loves the church is impossible apart from the power of the Holy Ghost. See Romans 5:5, John 13:34-35 and John 15:12-13. I must be willing to suffer and die for her, is what that means. I have prayed for it to be so in my marriage, and by faith in the power of prayer and the One who answers it, I declare that it is so, although the reality of it has never been tested and my hope is that it never will need to be tested, nor ever will be tested. My love for my wife also means that I want to be around to protect her; and dying for her would be contradictory to that.
A wife is to be in subjection to her husband (while drawing the line at any attempts to violate her chastity) even if her husband does not obey the word (i.e. is not born again, or also, if he does not love her as Christ loves the church) so that without the word but simply by her change of life, she may testify to her husband the reality of the Christian message. See 1 Peter 3:1-7 for the lowdown.
As a husband I realize that for me to love my wife as Christ loves the church is impossible apart from the power of the Holy Ghost. See Romans 5:5, John 13:34-35 and John 15:12-13. I must be willing to suffer and die for her, is what that means. I have prayed for it to be so in my marriage, and by faith in the power of prayer and the One who answers it, I declare that it is so, although the reality of it has never been tested and my hope is that it never will need to be tested, nor ever will be tested. My love for my wife also means that I want to be around to protect her; and dying for her would be contradictory to that.
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