Why Marriage?
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Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,
because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body.
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her
to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word.
He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.
In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,
since we are members of his body.
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church.
To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.
Let everyone submit to the governing authorities, since there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are instituted by God.
Obey your leaders and submit to them, since they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.
submitting to one another in the fear of Christ.
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,
because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body.
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her
to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word.
He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.
In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,
since we are members of his body.
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother
and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church.
To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.
A Christian marriage should demonstrate to the world the relationship between Christ and the Church.