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please visit us at the Villagechurch.net. Oh, Hey Church family. My name is Mary Kidder and I started going to the village in 2005.

Right now I get to serve with our student ministry where I lead a help lead a ninth grade girls group.

Yeah, they're great.

All right, 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 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 holy and without blemish.

In the same way, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies.

He who loves his wife loves himself,

for no one ever hated his own flesh. who loves his wife loves himself.

For no one ever hated his own flesh,

but nourishes and cherishes it,

just as Christ does the church,

because we are members of his body.

Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother and

hold fast to his wife and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is

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