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Marriage is established as a sacred union in which a man and woman leave their families and become one flesh, forming a new and unified relationship. Husbands are called to love their wives with a self-giving, sacrificial love modeled after Christ's love for the church—nourishing and cherishing them as their own bodies. This mutual commitment reflects a profound spiritual mystery, with wives called to respect their husbands and husbands to honor their wives as extensions of themselves.
Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Ephesians 5:25-33
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect. Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. For no man ever hated his own flesh; but
Marriage is established as a sacred union in which a man and woman leave their families and become one flesh, forming a new and unified relationship. Husbands are called to love their wives with a self-giving, sacrificial love modeled after Christ's love for the church—nourishing and cherishing them as their own bodies. This mutual commitment reflects a profound spiritual mystery, with wives called to respect their husbands and husbands to honor their wives as extensions of themselves.
Marriage is established as a sacred union in which a man and woman leave their families and become one flesh, forming a new and unified relationship. Husbands are called to love their wives with a self-giving, sacrificial love modeled after Christ's love for the church—nourishing and cherishing them as their own bodies. This mutual commitment reflects a profound spiritual mystery, with wives called to respect their husbands and husbands to honor their wives as extensions of themselves.
Marriage is established as a sacred union in which a man and woman leave their families and become one flesh, forming a new and unified relationship. Husbands are called to love their wives with a self-giving, sacrificial love modeled after Christ's love for the church—nourishing and cherishing them as their own bodies. This mutual commitment reflects a profound spiritual mystery, with wives called to respect their husbands and husbands to honor their wives as extensions of themselves.
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