Marriage in Christ
Ephesians
5: 21-33
Marriage in Christ
…. husbands should love their
wives as their own bodies. ……. ….
30 because we are members of His
(Christ’s) body.
Ephesians 5:28
"Therefore a man shall leave his
father and mother and hold fast to his
wife, and the two shall become one
flesh."
31
So God created man in his own image, in
the image of God he created him; male and
female he created them.
(Genesis 1:27)
And God saw everything that he had made,
and behold, it was very good.
(Genesis 1:31)
Then the LORD God said, "It is not good
that the man should be alone; I will make
him a helper fit for him." (Genesis 2:18)
So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to
fall upon the man, and while he slept took one
of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
22 And the rib that the LORD God had taken
from the man he made into a woman and
brought her to the man.
23 Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my
bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called
Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
2:21
Therefore a man shall leave his father
and his mother and hold fast to his wife,
and they shall become one flesh.
25 And the man and his wife were both
naked and were not ashamed.
24
Genesis
Chapter 3
Your (the woman’s) desire shall be for your
husband, and he shall rule over you.
(Genesis 3:16)
And if you do not do well, sin is crouching
at the door. Its desire is for you, but you
must rule over it.
(Genesis 4:7)
Your desire shall be for your husband,
and he shall rule over you.
(Genesis 3:16)
Sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is
for you, but you must rule over it. (Genesis 4:7)
“Desire for …. ” = “desire to control …. ”
“Your desire will be to control your
husband, but he will rule over you”
But from the beginning of
creation, 'God made them male and
female.‘ 7 'Therefore a man shall leave his
father and mother and hold fast to his
wife, 8 and the two shall become one
flesh.' So they are no longer two but one
flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined
together, let not man separate."
Mark 10:6
Ephesians 4:24
… put on the new self,
created after the likeness of God
in true righteousness and holiness.
walk in a manner worthy of the calling to
which you have been called,
4:17 you must no longer walk as the
Gentiles do
5:2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us
5:8 Walk as children of light
5:15 Look carefully then how you walk, not
as unwise but as wise,
4:1
do not get drunk with wine, for
that is debauchery, but be filled with
Ephesians 5:18
the Spirit
……
……
submitting to one another out of
reverence for Christ.
21
Wives, submit to your own husbands,
as to the Lord.
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.
22
not to think of yourself more
highly than you ought to think,
Romans 12:3
….
Do nothing from selfish ambition
or conceit, but in humility count others more
significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of
you look not only to his own interests, but
also to the interests of others.
Phillipians 2:3
Have this mind among yourselves, which is
yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was
in the form of God, did not count equality with
God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied
himself, by taking the form of a servant, being
born in the likeness of men. 8 And being
found in human form, he humbled himself by
becoming obedient to the point of death,
5
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.
22
Likewise, wives, be subject to
your own husbands, so that even if some
do not obey the word, they may be won
without a word by the conduct of their
wives,
2 when they see your respectful and pure
conduct.
1st Peter 3:1
Wives, submit to your own husbands,
as to the Lord.
22
Now as the church submits to Christ, so
also wives should submit in everything to
their husbands.
24
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.
25
Have this mind among yourselves,
which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who,
though he was in the form of God, did not
count equality with God a thing to be
grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the
form of a servant, being born in the likeness
of men. 8 And being found in human form,
he humbled himself by becoming obedient to
the point of death, even death on a cross.
Phil 2:5
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ
loved the church and gave himself up for her,
25
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, but
nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does
the church,
30 because we are members of His body.
28
Love is patient and kind; love
does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is
not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at
wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
7 Love bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends.
1st Corinthians 13:4
Husbands, love your wives, as
Christ loved the church and gave
himself up for her,
25
In the same way husbands should
love their wives as their own bodies.
28
"Therefore a man shall leave his father
and mother and hold fast to his wife, and
the two shall become one flesh."
32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying
that it refers to Christ and the church.
31
However, let each one of you love
his wife as himself,
33
and let the wife see that she respects
her husband.