Ephesians 5:22-33
Marriage Like Christ and the Church
22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. 24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might present to Himself the church [a]in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. 28 So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are members of His body. 31 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. 32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she [b]respects her husband.
Ephesians 5:25 say that husbands should Love their wives which all reflects how Jesus Christ Loves The Church, and also how Jesus Christ gave Himself up which suggest/hints crucifying Himself on the cross in order to die for the church. Therefore, based on Ephesians 5:25 , the bible reader can infer/deduce that Jesus Christ has an extremely Passionate Love for The Christian Church. Furthermore, Ephesians 5:22-33 emphasizes that a husband's relationship with his wife should reflect Jesus Christ's relationship with The Christian Church. Therefore, we could further infer/deduce that a husband also has to have an extremely Passionate Love for his wife.
( 1 Corinthians 7:25-31 )
25 Now concerning virgins I have no command of the Lord, but I give an opinion as one who [a]by the mercy of the Lord is trustworthy. 26 I think then that this is good in view of the [b]present distress, that it is good for a man [c]to remain as he is.27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife. 28 But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you. 29 But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none; 30 and those who weep, as though they did not weep; and those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice; and those who buy, as though they did not possess; 31 and those who use the world, as though they did not make full use of it; for the form of this world is passing away.
However, 1 Corinthians 7:29 seems to suggest that husband(and their wives) should Not idolize(and/or worship) their marriage.
How should we view
Ephesians 5:22-33(specifically Ephesians 5:25) which suggests that a husband should have an extremely Passionate Love for his wife
in light of
1 Corinthians 7:29 bible verse which says husband(and their wives) should Not idolize(and/or worship) their marriage?
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