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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP again. Here is the whole verse:

Ephesians 5:22-33 NKJV. Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.[/quote]
christians, particularly the males, always forget the second half of those verses.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”[b] 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

People need to also understand the context of why that letter was written.  At the time, arranged marriages was still a thing, and women often did not respect their husbands, causing an acrimonious marriage.

This is a letter from Paul, a zealot.  This is not a teaching from Christ. I know many Christians think Paul was an extension of Christ's teachings, but he was still human, prone to error, bias and influence from the culture of his time.

Take it all with a grain of salt.  Women and men should honor and respect each other. That is what makes for a healthy, happy marriage.

-married woman of 20+ years.[/quote]

I agree with you wholeheadertly which is why I asked if the preacher quoted the rest of the text upthread. [/quote]

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