Pictured to the left is a copy of a version of the Holy Bible, known as the voice; being entitled: COMPASS: THE STUDY BIBLE FOR NAVIGATING YOUR LIFE. Ephesians 5:25-32 read as follows:
"25-26 Husbands, you must love your wives so deeply, purely, and sacrificially that we can understand it only when we compare it to the love the Anointed One has for His bride, the church. We know He gave Himself up completely to make her His own, washing her clean of all her impurity with water and the powerful presence of His word. 27 He has given Himself so that He can present the church as His radiant bride, unstained, unwrinkled, and unblemished-completely free from all impurity-holy and innocent before Him. 28 So husbands should care for their wives as if their lives depended on it, the same way they care for their own bodies. As you love her, you ultimately are loving part of yourself (remember, you are one flesh). 29 No one really hates his own body; he takes care to feed and love it, just as the Anointed takes care of His church, 30 because we are living members of His body. 31 'And this is the reason a man leaves his father and his mother and is united with his wife; the two come together as one flesh.' 32 There is a great mystery reflected in this Scripture, and I say that it has to do with the marriage of the Anointed One and the church."
The apostle Paul ( see 1:1 ) wrote ( see 3:1-4, for example ), here, a comparison between the relationship of the Lord Jesus ( see verse twenty ) to His church ( see verse twenty-nine, above ), the church of Christ ( see Matthew 16:17, 18 and Romans 16:16, for example ), and that of the husband to his wife.
Please click on the link below to read today's bulletin regarding the wife, and the marriage relationship:
Also, please study the Holy Bible ( which is God's word - see Psalm 119:65-73, 142, and 151, John 17:1, 3, and 17, and 2 Timothy 2:15; 3:16, 17, for example ). If you have any questions about the Holy Bible, you can contact me by e-mail at:
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