Family Matters Part 1

Ephesians 5:21-33 – “
21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church,
his body, of which he is the Savior.
24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so
also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love
your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to
make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle
or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
28 In this same way, husbands
ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves
himself.
29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care
for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his
body.
31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united
to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
32 This is a profound
mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.
33 However, each one
of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect
her husband.” (NIV)