How Should a Husband Treat Is Wife
719 How Should a Husband Treat His Wife?
Phil Sanders
God’s Answers to Life’s Questions
Some people think because the husband is the head of the wife, which means he has a right to be the boss and keep her in line. Well the Scriptures teach that the husband is the head of his wife, but there is more to be said. Stay with us as we explore this important Bible teaching. Today we’re asking the question, “How should a husband treat his wife?” Marriage is one of the great gifts God has given to man. I can think of nothing more precious than a husband and wife who have lived their whole lives in a covenant of love and marriage. All marriages have their problems, but I am convinced that when two people love God and love each other they will be able to live together “till death do they part.” When people pursue their marriages on God’s terms and keep God’s laws, they find that their marriages are happy and fulfilling. Today we are focusing on how husbands should treat their wives in the marriage relationship. The apostle Paul gives us God’s description of marriage in Ephesians 5:22-33: Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 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. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 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. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to
Phil Sanders
God’s Answers to Life’s Questions
Some people think because the husband is the head of the wife, which means he has a right to be the boss and keep her in line. Well the Scriptures teach that the husband is the head of his wife, but there is more to be said. Stay with us as we explore this important Bible teaching. Today we’re asking the question, “How should a husband treat his wife?” Marriage is one of the great gifts God has given to man. I can think of nothing more precious than a husband and wife who have lived their whole lives in a covenant of love and marriage. All marriages have their problems, but I am convinced that when two people love God and love each other they will be able to live together “till death do they part.” When people pursue their marriages on God’s terms and keep God’s laws, they find that their marriages are happy and fulfilling. Today we are focusing on how husbands should treat their wives in the marriage relationship. The apostle Paul gives us God’s description of marriage in Ephesians 5:22-33: Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 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. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 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. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to