Ephesians 5:22-33 · Wives and Husbands

22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church-- 30 for we are members of his body. 31 "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." 32 This is a profound mystery--but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

God's Design for Marriage
Ephesians 5:22-33
Sermon
by Bill Bouknight
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I saw a cartoon somewhere which showed a preacher crouched in the pulpit area which was arranged like a fortress. He was peering through a crack in what looked like a machine gun nest. The preacher says to the congregation, "Today my text is Ephesians 5:22, 'wives, submit to your husbands." Yes, here is another one of those texts I have run from for quite a while; it is not on the top ten list of the feminist movement of America.

I heard about a missionary in the depths of the Amazon who was talking to a native who had five wives. The missionary said, "You are breaking God's law. You must tell four of the women that you are no longer their husband." The native thought for a few moments, and then said, "I'll wait here; you tell them." Maybe I should have sent a messenger to deliver this se…

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