Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
Christ presents the church to Himself glorious and spotless, clothed in His righteousness, washed in His blood, conformed wholly to His image in that final day when all hypocrites, heretics, and sin are purged away and she shines in perfect glory with Him.
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The husband's duty is love, active, sincere, entire, constant love, despite his wife's weaknesses. No meanness of birth, no plainness, no froward disposition releases him from it. Christ's example is both argument and rule: it excites us to love and shows us how.
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A husband has no danger of loving his wife too much if he loves her less than God. Christ's love for the church is the measure: willing to die, to toil, to deny himself rest and ease, to suffer anything to save her. That is the model.
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