MARRIAGE CONSIDERATIONS

I conducted a non-scientific survey asking a diverse group of married couples
about marriage. There were a total of 14 questions and I documented their 
responses for sharing with others. Over the next few weeks, I will be posting 
these questions, along with the unedited responses I received to each question.

Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the 
husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, 
of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives 
should submit to their husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up 
for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the 
word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or 
wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands 
ought to love their wives as their own bodies. 

He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, 
but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—for we are 
members of his body.

“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his 
wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery—but I am 
talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love 
his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. 
(Ephesians 5:21-33)