Christ and the Church: The Marriage Standard

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Wiues, submit your selues vnto your husbands, as vnto the Lord.

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For the husband is the wiues head, euen as Christ is the head of the Church, and the same is the sauiour of his body.

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Therfore as the Church is in subiection to Christ, euen so let the wiues be to their husbands in euery thing.

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Husbands, loue your wiues, euen as Christ loued the Church, and gaue himselfe for it,

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That hee might sanctifie it, and clense it by the washing of water through the worde,

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That hee might make it vnto him selfe a glorious Church, not hauing spot or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it shoulde bee holy and without blame.

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So ought men to loue their wiues, as their owne bodies: he that loueth his wife, loueth him selfe.

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For no man euer yet hated his owne flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, euen as the Lord doeth the Church.

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For we are members of his bodie, of his flesh, and of his bones.

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For this cause shall a man leaue father and mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they twaine shalbe one flesh.

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This is a great secrete, but I speake concerning Christ, and concerning the Church.

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Therefore euery one of you, doe ye so: let euery one loue his wife, euen as himselfe, and let the wife see that shee feare her husband.

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