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Ephesions chapter 5 verses 22 through 27.

Wives submit to your own husbands as to the Lord, for the husband is the head of the wife,

even as Christ is the head of the Church his body and is himself its Savior.

Now as the Church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

Husbands love your wives as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her having

cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself

in splendor without spot or wrinkle or any such thing that she might be

wholly and without blemish. There's a ton we could talk about with this passage.

Ephesians chapter 5,

versus 22 through 33, gives a powerful picture

of God's design for marriage

as a display of the gospel.

It's so awesome when you think about how God in the very beginning,

like all the way back to Genesis one and two,

creating man and woman in his image to compliment one another.

In Genesis chapter two, how he brings man and woman together to form one flesh in marriage in this picture of covenant

commitment to one another and he did this for a reason like from the very beginning in Genesis chapter 2 God set up

marriage between a man and a woman in this way to be a picture on the

landscape of human history of his love for the world and Jesus love specifically for the church.

For those he came to die for, his love for sinners who would trust in him.

The whole picture here of husbands as a picture of Jesus' love for the church and the way they love their wives.

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