Ephesians 5:24,25 - Love your wives, as Christ loved the church

5:24

All this section must be taken together. Wives are to submit to their husbands as the church submits to Christ, in everything. With some this tends to raise our hackles, with others there is at least a mild discomfort with the words. This is largely because our sense of what submission means is deeply skewed by our experience of the world. We think that submission equals inferiority, but consider for a moment what the fruit of submission to Christ means. It means life, and more abundant life, it means freedom, it means we can do things we could never dream of doing. It means we become so much more effective, fruitful, useful, fulfilled. So it is with wives submitting to their husbands. It certainly does not mean that a woman becomes less, becomes more of a person.

5:25

So husbands are to love their wives as Christ loved the church. Christ sacrificed Himself for the sake of the church, so that the church could become all that it was meant to be. If anyone thinks that a husband having authority over his wife means he can do what he wants, or he treats her as inferior, or it means he always gets his own way, such a man is deeply mistaken and should view the last day with fear and trembling. The goal of our lives should be to see our wives flourish, we make sacrifices for them.