“Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4). There is no instruction book in raising children,…
“Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise), so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth”…
“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right” (Ephesians 6:1). We are saved by grace apart from works of the law, but we have not been freed…
“Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband” (Ephesians 5:33). If…
“This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church” (Ephesians 5:32). Mystery is that which you see but cannot quite grasp how it is…
“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” (Ephesians 5:31). Three times this…
“For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His body” (Ephesians 5:29-30). We…
“So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself” (Ephesians 5:28) A normal and healthy person will care…
“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of…
“But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything” (Ephesians 5:24). This is perhaps one of the most unpopular…