With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Humility, gentleness and patience keep the bond of peace between people.
Ephesians 5:25
Love in marriage modeled on Christ: a love that gives itself up for the other.
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Love in marriage modeled on Christ: a love that gives itself up for the other.
KJVEphesians 5:25 in context
22Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
A letter about who we are in Christ and how that shapes our relationships.
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