...Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. . . . However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect...

..."as is fitting in the Lord" (Col. 3:18) or "as to the Lord" (Eph. 5:22), and that husbands love their wives "just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her" (Eph. 5:25-29). And it is on this latter basis that he speaks of mutuality between husbands and wives,...

...Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. . . . However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect...

...aspect of the analogy between Christ and the believing husband that Paul develops in this passage: "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her" (v. 25). Husbands are to be a source of life for their wives even if it means giving up their own lives...

...her she is needed, appreciated and lovely, she will become radiant. He presents her to himself. "... to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any blemish, but holy and blameless" (Eph. 5:27). Just as Christ is preparing His bride, the 107 church,...

...Father chose us in Christ before time began "to be holy and blameless in his sight" (Ephesians l:4). Christ ' 'loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy. . . and to present her to himself as a radiant church. ..holy and blameless" (5:25-27). The sanctifying...

...wives, Paul spoke of the relationship between Christ and the church. Notice especially verses 25-27. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the...himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain...

...Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the...church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansmg her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant...

...church, so that the church could share in every blessing. Paul makes this meaning clear when he writes, "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her" (Eph 5:25). This is agape in action. Agape is totally selfless, other-centered love. It is the love...

...of a natural superordination of the husband over the wife, but husbands are challenged to love their wives "just as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her" (v. 25). In w. 28-31, this love is further explicated and founded on Genesis 2:23-24, and the union...