22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. 25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 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. 28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, …show more content…
o Caveat re wife beating
- Marriage is a metaphor, a picture of a greater reality o V23 “For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
The husbands duty is that of leader
• Now that is going to be expanded as having its highest manifestation and demand as being sacrificial love in the next verses
The wife’s duty is towards submit as to the Lord
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• What this is not saying: o This is not saying that a married woman cannot have a career, or work outside the home, or the right to choose what she wants to and does not want to do in the way that a man does
But the limit that the NT put on it is that a woman may do those things so long as it is not at the expense of the picture her marriage is meant to show
• The family and the home would be her first concern and her highest priority as her heart is captured by the picture of the gospel being portrayed and the person is filled with the Holy Spirit
The phrase everything” does not mean a wife should
• Sin
• Do things that are demeaning or humiliating o And this is seen from what is to follow about the role of the husband who is sacrificially loving and serving this wife who is submitting to him
The husbands role is not less demanding but it is different, it is complementary