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The Primary Duty of Husbands: Love Your Wives

November 30, 2008

The husband is the head of the wife

1 Corinthians 11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

Ephesians 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

Husbands rule the home

1 Timothy 3:12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

husbands, Gird up your loins like a man!

Job 38:3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

LOVE YOUR WIVES

Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Genesis 24:67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Genesis 29:18,20 And Jacob loved Rachel…20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

LOVE IS ACTION NOT JUST THOUGHTS

John 21:16 “…do you love Me?" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I love You." He said to him, "Tend My sheep."

Most men love themselves too much

2 Timothy 3:1-2 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves…

Christ’s love gave Himself

Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

A love not focused on ones self

Philippians 2:4 Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

WE love Christ and submit to Him

because He first loved us

1 John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.

We cannot overestimate the value of our wives

Proverbs 18:22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

Proverbs 19:14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.

Proverbs 31:10-12 Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies. 11 The heart of her husband safely trusts her; So he will have no lack of gain. 12 She does him good and not evil All the days of her life.

HUSBAND CLEAVE TO YOUR WIFE

Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

A husbands love for his wife is special

Proverbs 5:18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Proverbs 5:19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

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Love her as you love yourself

Ephesians 5:28-29 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

Love brings happiness to your wife

Deuteronomy 24:5 " When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war or be charged with any business; he shall be free at home one year, and bring happiness to his wife whom he has taken

Live joyfully with youR wife

Ecclesiastes 9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun

“Without woman, man would be rude, gross, solitary. Woman spreads around him the flowers of existence, as the creepers of the forests, which decorate the trunks of sturdy oaks with their perfumed garlands.”

The Royal Path Of Life (1882)