Husbands love your wives


Ephesians 5:25-28

25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Husbands love your wives like you love yourself. I know I love to pamper myself with bubble baths, theaters, restaurants, movies, traveling and most of all praising God for me.
If you love those things like I do, it probably will be great to cherish her with those wonderful blessings.

Be her protector and not her beater. Would you like somebody to beat on you are talk down to you ?. I don't think so treat her like a queen for a king with all the love.

In verses 25-33 St. Paul speaks directly of the obligations of the husband. Having treated first, though briefly, of the obligations of the wife, he is now in a better position to dwell on the duties of husbands, and this at greater length, as it was more needed. To the wife he proposed the Church as a model, and now to husbands he will hold up Jesus Christ as a model and a pattern according to which they should regulate their treatment of and their dealings with their wives. Husbands are to love their wives as Christ has loved His Church, and they are to prove their love for their wives by sacrifice as Christ proved His love for the Church by delivering Himself up in sacrifice for It. The Church as a whole is here substituted for its members.

In this and the following verse the Apostle will now give the effect and purpose of Christ’s love and sacrifice for the Church, which were that He might cleanse and sanctify it by the washing of Baptism, that He might present it to Himself as a glorious spouse, and that it might live and continue holy and without blemish in His sight.

So in the same manner; as Christ loved the Church in order “that He might present it to Himself holy and without blemish,” so should the love of husbands for their wives have in view their sanctification; and as Christ loves the Church as His mystical body, so husbands should love their wives as being one flesh with them, as constituting one body with them, of which the husband is the head. The Apostle does not say: “Let husbands love their wives as they love their own bodies, but because wives are to husbands as their own bodies”

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