Alright, in Ephesians chapter
5, and let me begin reading here in verse 22. Wives, submit yourselves
unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is
the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church,
and he is the Savior of the body. Therefore, as the church is subject
unto Christ, So let the wives be to their own husbands in every
thing." Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands. Now,
I want to begin with saying some things about marriage. The man, the husband, and the
wife. And tonight I want to especially
look at the wife. And I want to begin with saying
some negative things. I have nothing to say about scriptural
marriage that's negative, but I want to begin with some negative
things, and mainly some misunderstandings that the world has concerning
marriage. And the first is this. So many
people marry for physical attraction. One of the great harms that's
come to marriage in our day is young people, especially, simply
marrying out of physical attraction. One man said, so much of marriage
today is a mere legalizing of sex. It's simply an outward appeal. And I know that that has something
to do with it. I'm not discarding that altogether.
But there's something more important than that. You may have saw on
the news just this past week or so, down at one of the NASCAR
races, the preacher was praying before one of the NASCAR races. And it was so sad, really. People
were laughing, but I thought, I bet God is not laughing at
such a prayer. But he was praying, and in his
prayer, he was asking God to help him to have a good race
and help him to drive safely and all of this. And then he
said, I thank you for my hot wife. And of course, the crowd
roared when he said that. And I thought, that's the problem
with marriage today. He has a bigger problem than
that. I know that. And the presumption,
the fact that he can go into God's presence and mock in such
a way. But isn't that the problem with
many today as they think about marriage? My hot girlfriend. Or my hot boyfriend. And we look
on the outward, the physical attraction. And that's what often
leads to an early divorce. Because it's not long if that's
the only reason we marry, we lose the physical attraction,
and then there's no cause to stay together. So what does that
lead to? Divorce. Divorce. There's something more than physical
attraction. What about trust? What about
love? What about security? There's
much more, isn't there? Honor and these things are much
more important. Friendship, fellowship, respect. I tell you, when the beauty,
outward beauty wears off, these inward things will remain. So
that's the first thing. It's a negative aspect, but marriage
is so often entered into simply because of some outward attraction. One of the prettiest girls that
I've ever seen in my life was in the sixth grade. Fifth grade. I changed schools in the fifth
grade. And I got off the bus and there stood this most beautiful
girl you've ever seen in your life. I didn't know my wife then. Up to that time. But I told somebody,
I said, that's the most beautiful girl I've ever seen in my life.
And they said, that's what we thought when we first saw her.
until we got acquainted with it. So see, it's not just outward.
It's inward, isn't it? Getting to know someone inward.
That means more than outward attraction. That's the first
thing, but that's negative. Another negative aspect of marriage
is this. Many don't understand marriage,
that it's not a human arrangement, but it's a God-given institution. Now, we stress marriage that
it should be legal according to the state, and I can't stress
that too much. You need to go down to the courthouse,
you need to get your license, and you need to be married according
to the state in which you live. We have laws. It's not lawful
to shack up and live in fornication. I stress that. Get married. Go to the courthouse, go to the
justice of the peace, or go and get a license and be married
legally. But you know, that's not the
most important aspect of salvation, of marriage. It's essential,
but this, marriage is an institution of God. Listen to what Lloyd-Jones
said about marriage, and he just stressed this in one of those
sentences. Marriage is something that God
in His infinite grace and kindness has appointed and has ordained
and prepared and established for a man and a woman. What God has joined together,
let not man put asunder." That's what makes marriage so important. It's not of man. It's of God. It's of God. And every time we
perform a wedding ceremony, almost in every ceremony, we begin,
we are gathered here before this people and before God. Why do
we say that? Because God ordained marriage. He ordained marriage. He gave
it to man. And therefore, that being said,
in the light of this, here's another negative. When we think
of marriage, as being extremely hard. And when you get married,
you better expect trouble and heartache. We often put it in the hearts
of young people to think, man, I'm getting married and it's
going to be tough. It's really going to be tough. Well, let
me say this, brothers and sisters. If a couple is having unbearable
troubles in their marriage, it's not the institution's fault. It's not marriage's fault. But
the fault lies within either the husband or the wife or both. Where there is a submissive wife
and where there is a loving husband, there should not be any overbearing
problems. There is joy, there is contentment,
there is peace in spite of whatever troubles a married couple may
run into. I want to show you that in Scriptures.
I want you to look at this in Proverbs chapter 5. Some of the
most wonderful marriages I've seen is couples that's been married
30, 40, 50, or 60 years. And their marriage, you can talk
to them about their marriage, and they said it began sweet,
and it's still sweet. And you ask them, have there
been no troubles? Oh yes, there's trouble. But
it's my fault. It's not marriage's fault. It's
not God's fault. It's not the institution's fault.
But it's some fault of my own. And once we got over the humps,
the wife says, and I learned how to be submissive to my husband,
and the husband said once I learned how to love my wife, marriage
became wonderful. It's a joyous institution. And that's what Proverbs is talking
about in chapter 5. And look in verse 18. Look what he says in verse 18. Let
thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice, rejoice with the wife
of thy youth. Who's he talking to? He may be
talking to a 90-year-old man. And he says, you're still married
to the wife of your youth. Rejoice with her after 60 years. Rejoice. Yes, why? Marriage is a wonderful thing.
And it just gets sweeter and better the longer that you go. God intended it that way. And
look what else he says. Let her be as the loving hand. They tell me that's the deer, the red female deer. They
say it's a very beautiful deer. And as the pleasant roll, of
course, that's the mountain goat. Some people used to take these
and make pets out of them, domesticate them because they're such beautiful,
loving animals. Look at this. Let her breast
satisfy thee at all times And be thou ravished, that word means
enraptured, be intoxicated always with her love. Always. Always. Except those couple of years,
you know, where you had it rough. No, always. Always. That's what marriage is. It's
always being in love with your wife. This word here, ravished,
always with her love, they said this literally reads, "...error
thou always in her love." Error, always in her love. And John
Gill said this, "...if any error is committed by you concerning
her, let it be on the side of love, in loving her too much."
If you go to error, let it be on the side of love. loving her
too much, and loving her only, and no strange woman. So marriage
is nothing negative, is it? I bet if you look in the scriptures,
you won't find one single negative aspect about marriage. You'll
not. The negative aspect is in us,
isn't it? We're what makes the institution
sometimes burdensome. But the institution itself was
given of God for our pleasure, for our betterment, our well-being.
Fourthly, positive. Let's look at this in a positive
way. Marriage in a positive way. Let me say this, and some of
you ladies are going to smile when I say this. Within the marriage,
the husband and the wife. The wife is the most important
person. In the marriage, the wife is
the most important person. Wanda's small and Steve's not.
But that's so. And why do I say this? Because
Scripture says it. Let me read you some passages.
Let me read Proverbs 18.22. Listen to this. Whoso findeth
a wife, findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor of the Lord. He that finds a wife finds a
good thing, and he obtains favor of the Lord. Listen to Proverbs
19 and 14. House and riches are the inheritance
of fathers, and a prudent wife, a wise and understanding wife,
is from the Lord. I never find the Scripture says
that about a husband. I never hear the Scripture says
to the wife, if you find a husband, you've found a good thing, and
you've obtained the favor of the Lord. But it says that about
you ladies. But I tell you this, too. If
you find a bad wife, you've not obtained favor of the Lord. Here's
what Solomon said about that, too. It's better to dwell in
the corner of a housetop than with a brawling woman in a white
house. And he went on to say it's better
to dwell out in the wilderness than to dwell with a contentious
and angry woman. Now why is so much emphasis put
on this? The positive aspect of a woman.
You find a good, wise, understanding woman, you've found a good thing.
But if you wind up with a contentious and angry woman, you're in trouble.
Now why does the Scripture give the positive and the negative?
For this reason. The Scripture knows something
about you ladies. And it's this, you yield a lot
of influence with us men. You yield more influence than
us husbands, I tell you that. We can't bring as much peace,
we can't bring as much stability and joy in the family as you
women can, you wives can. We can't stir up as much trouble
either as wives can. So either for good or for evil,
you ladies have more influence and more sway than us men. The Scripture teaches that. That's
why I say the wife is the most important person in this marriage
relationship. Look over in Proverbs 31. If
you want to read a lot about marriage, go through the book
of Proverbs. A lot of it is spiritually speaking about Christ and His
church. But look here in Proverbs 31. I want to show you some scripture. Turn to these scriptures with
me. Proverbs 31 and look in verse 10. We must look at these first.
Before we spiritualize them, you have to look at them literally.
That's the first way we have to look at these scriptures.
But look what it says about a wife. Who can find a virtuous woman? My margin reads, literally, a
wife of valor. Who can find a wife of valor? Her price is far above Ruby's. Look what her husband thinks
about her. You don't think she has influence with him? The heart
of her husband doeth safely trust in her, so that he shall have
no need of scorn. She will do him good and not
evil all the days of her life. Look over in verse 28. Her children arise up and call
her blessed. her husband also, and he praiseth
her. Many daughters have done virtuously
well, but thou excelleth them all. Favor is deceitful, and
beauty is vain, but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be
praised." See how much influence she has. See how she's noticed
in this marriage relationship. Her husband notices her, and
he trusts in her. Her children notice her, and
they praise her. She does the family good at last. Now look over in another place.
Look over in 1 Peter 3. And we're going to see here why
I make the statement that a woman is the most important in the
marriage relationship for the influence that she has with the
husband. And this is what Peter says.
Look in 1 Peter chapter 3. Every time any more I say, turn
to 1 Peter. I think of Brother Larry teaching
through this book, and a lot of things I go here and read,
I think about what he said. When I turn to John, I think
about Brother Glenn and the book of John going through that. But
look here in 1 Peter 3. He's been speaking about being
subject, being under submission. Likewise you wives, be in subjection
to your own husbands, that if any obey not the word, they also
may without the word be won by the conduct, the conversation
of the wise." What kind of conduct does she have? Well, they behold
your chaste conversation. That means clean and modest and
innocent. They behold your chaste conversation
coupled with fear. whose adorning, let it not be
that outward adorning of plaiting of the hair, and wearing of gold,
or of putting on of apparel, but let it be the hidden man
of the heart, and that which is not corruptible, even the
ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight
of God of great price." Peter said, if a woman has a hard-hearted
man and he's prejudiced against the gospel and the things of
Christ. He said a woman yields such influence
over that man that she can remove that prejudice. And the way she
removes that prejudice and softens his heart is by being kind and
submissive and obedient to him. A quiet and submissive spirit
How many huge, macho, strong men have been conquered in their
hearts and subdued by a meek and quiet woman? Men like macho
men. I don't like to see little sissy
men. If you're a man, you like to say, gun hole boy, don't you? We like to see them shooting
up and fighting. That's what men like. But when
it comes to a man, Looking at a wife, you know what he likes?
Quietness, meekness, gentleness, submissiveness. That's what he
likes. He loves that. And she yields
a lot of influence over a man when a woman is like that. I
heard a little story one time. I don't know exactly if I can
remember all of it, but it was something like this. I remember
the gist of the story. This man, he drank a lot. He would come home often drunk.
But he bragged to his friends who drank a lot with him that
he had a wife that disloved to please him. And whatever he asked
her to do, she just did it. And she did it with such grace
about her. She was a Christian. One morning, it was still dark,
and he brought several men home with him. He said, you guys go
home with me if you don't believe it. We'll wake my wife up. I'll
ask her to fix us breakfast, and she'll fix all of us breakfast,
and she'll never complain a murmur. And he went home, got his wife
up, and she fixed them breakfast, was so kind to them, and she
was so kind and so submissive. that those men become ashamed
and silent because she was such a good submissive wife. That's
the influence a woman has when she has this meek and quiet spirit. You want to have influence over
your husbands? You can't fight with them and get it. You can't. You can't get the last word in.
You can't outsmart us. You know how you conquer us husbands?
Just what Peter says for you to be. A meek and quiet and submissive
woman. Now Steve's laughing. You've
got to get him laughing. Okay, let's go to this thing.
Let's go to motives. Look back over in Ephesians.
If you ladies need any help, In being this way, maybe this
will help you. Look at this. Motives. Look at
Ephesians chapter 5 and verse 22 and verse 24. Motives for
being submissive and quiet and gentle. I want to look at this
in verse 22 and verse 24 first. Now, we've got to say something
about this. Look here in verse 22. Wives, submit yourselves
unto your own husbands as unto the Lord." Now, here we've got
to be careful. When you read this, it does not
mean to submit yourself to your husbands to the same degree that
you submit to Christ. That's impossible. It cannot
mean that. Our submission to Christ is absolute. It's total. It's unconditional. were slaves of Christ. But it
can't mean that, as far as a woman is concerned, submitting to her
husband. Look what he says on in verse
24. 24 Wherefore, as the church is
subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands
in every thing. Now, we've got to understand
that too. And when you say in everything, in everything that
pertains to him as your husband. And what we must clarify is this,
a husband has no right, he has no authority from Christ to get
in the conscience of his wife. That's not his place. It's not
his place to tell her to do something wrong and then her obey him. She doesn't have to hold to her
opinions and go contrary to Him. I'm not saying that. But He doesn't
get in your conscience. Christ Himself sets upon the
throne of your conscience. And not your husband. So what
that means here when He says, wives, submit yourselves unto
your own husbands, as unto the Lord, it means for Christ's sake, Do it because you're doing it
as service to the Lord. Look here at what he says in
chapter 6. Look in verse 5. Here's the very same thing. Look
what he says. Servants, you slaves, be obedient
to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with
fear and trembling and singleness of heart, as you would do it
unto Christ. That's his meaning here. And
that brings me to this first motive for you, dear ladies,
in being a submissive wife. The first motive is this. Do
it as unto the Lord. Do it for Christ's sake. For Christ's sake. It's not always
easy to submit to your husbands. I know that. And sometimes, we
husbands have got a short wick And we get hateful, and we're
wrong, and yet there is a sense in which you ladies must go ahead
and submit. You need some motives. You need
some help. And this will help you for Christ's
sake. You may say, I can't do it for
my sake. What about Christ's sake? Look
here in chapter 4. Look here at what the Father
did for us for Christ's sake. Look down here in Ephesians 4,
verse 32. And be ye kind one to another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's
sake, has forgiven you. You ladies, how many sins do
you think the Father in Heaven has forgiven you? We sometimes think, well, us
men, our sins are so much greater than the ladies. That's not so,
is it? You ladies have the same heart we men's got. You sin just
as often as we do. We're just alike in that sense.
How many sins, Gail, do you suppose God's forgiven you? There are countless, aren't there?
And why did he do it? For Christ's sake. And now he
turns right back around to you wives and he says, you submit
to your husband and do it for this reason. For Christ's sake. The next time you ladies want
to get the last word in, remember this. For Christ's sake. I won't
say another word. For Christ's sake. For Christ's
sake. That's a good motive for that. Here's another motive. Back in
our text in chapter 5, in verse 23, this is a good motive. Consider God's order in which
He's placed you. Look at this. The husband is
the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church. We looked at this just the other
night, but let's look at it just for a moment again. God has an
order. And He's placed you ladies in
this order. Just as sure as He made Eve,
He made you. And just as He made Eve and brought
her out of Adam and gave her to be a helpmate, He has brought
you and gave you to a husband for a helpmate. That's His order. If God wanted you ladies to be
a husband, you'd have been born to man. If He didn't want you
to have a husband, He wouldn't have gave you one. But since
He made you a woman and gave you to a husband, this is His
order for you. He is your Head. He's your Head. Turn over here to 1 Timothy. I know I'm turning to a lot of
Scriptures, but there's no sense in me quoting these and forgetting
them. Look over in 1 Timothy chapter
2. This has something here to do with God's order. 1 Timothy
2. Look in verse 11. This says something about God's
order. The way He has arranged things.
His arrangement. 1 Timothy 2 verse 11. Let the woman
learn in silence. with all subjection." Now he
is speaking here of the worship service. But I suffer not a woman
to teach, nor to usher authority over the man, but to be in silence. Why? Why does he tell the ladies
to be in silence and to be subjective to the men? Verse 13, For this
reason, for Adam was first formed And then Eve used to do this
because even before the fall, God had an order. He had an arrangement. He made Adam and he was the head
over all creation. Everything was subject to Him.
And then out of Adam, He made a woman and said, Woman, this
is your head. The man wasn't made for the woman,
but the woman was made for the man. That's the order. It was
that way before the fall. And Paul said, Women, you wives,
submit yourselves. Because this is God's order.
This is God's order. But he goes on in verse 14. Look
at this. He gives another reason. And
this is because of the fall. And Adam was not deceived, but
the woman being deceived was in the He seems here to be telling
me that when Eve sinned, when she listened to the devil and
disobeyed God, this subjection became greater. Before, Adam
was over her as her head. But nothing was said being subjected
to him as she was after the fall. After the fall, here is what
he said to the woman. He said, Woman, because you've
done this thing, your husband shall reign over you, and your
desire shall be to him. So it seemed like it brought
you, dear ladies, even under a more subjective responsibility
because Eve sinned. So there's a good motive, isn't
it? In God's whole arrangement for things, He's put you right
where He wants you. He's given you a head, and that's
man. And he said, now you submit to
it. You submit to him. And here's one encouraging thing
about this. You know this is just a temporal situation. It's
just going to last as long as Larry and Sue is in this world.
Their marriage is not eternal. Our marriage to Christ is, but
our marriage to one another is only temporary. The Lord Jesus
said in heaven, they neither give in marriage, or given in
marriage, but they are as the angels of God. You ladies won't
have a man to be your head. You won't have to submit to your
husbands in that day because you'll have only one husband,
and that will be Christ. So this is only a temporary arrangement,
and you should submit because it's God's arrangement. He made
the man the head. Here's another motive, and let's
look at it right quick. And this is a good motive. God
loves to see this order carried out, acted out, in the wife's
attitude. Now, it's very seldom you'll
hear me say that God... Somebody got a phone ringing?
I'm not hearing that. Or is that Sue? Sue? That's right. I ain't going to be like Don
Portman. You'll have to cut this out of this tape here. It's very seldom you hear me
say this, that God loves something within somebody. But when you
say that, it's for this reason. He put it there. And He loves
to see this attitude in the wife. Let me read that verse to you
again in 1 Peter 3. Let it be the hidden man of the heart,
and that which is not corruptible." Now, who put that card of incorruption
there? Who put that new creature there?
He did, didn't he? And listen now, "...even the
ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight
of God, of great price." Great price. I tell you, no man, no
husband likes a brawled and angry and loud woman. And God don't
either. God likes what the husband likes.
A meek and quiet spirit in the wife. Fourthly, here's another motive.
The husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of
the church. That's a good motive. Submit
to that order. And the husband is the Savior
of the wife, as Christ is the Savior of the church. Let me read that to you again.
Look back over in my text. Ephesians 5, verse 23. For the
husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of
the church, and he is the Savior of the body. Now some people
say that Paul just wrote that in there and sort of filled that
up with that. But he had a reason for saying
this, and the reason is this. Just as Christ is the head of
the man, the man is the head of the woman, and just as Christ
is the Savior of his church, the man is the Savior of his
wife. Now, in what sense can it be
said that the man saves his wife? He's the Savior of his wife.
When you read this word, saved and Savior, it doesn't always
mean regeneration or eternal salvation. Paul said this, We
trust and believe in God, who is the Savior of all men, especially
of them that believe. In what sense is God the Savior
of all men? Well, He saves them from trouble,
doesn't He? He saves them from a lot of snares
that they get themselves into. Lost people. He's the Savior. He's the deliverer of even lost
people. In Him we all live and move and
have our being. Can you imagine what an awful
world this would be if God didn't save everybody? If He didn't
deliver everybody, if He just said, I ain't going to have nothing
to do with anybody. I ain't going to protect anybody. Can you imagine
that? The devil would kill everybody.
But God is the Savior of all men in the sense that He's there
to deliver. He's there to help. He's there
to rescue them from so many snares that they'd get themselves into.
Paul wrote to Timothy about being saved, and here's what he said.
Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them,
and you shall both save yourself and them that hear you. Now,
how does he save himself? It can't be regeneration, can
it? You'll save yourself a lot of trouble, Timothy. You'll save
yourself a lot of heartache. If you'll take heed to these
doctrines and believe them and embrace them and continue in
them, you'll save other people from a lot of snares too. That
word means deliver them. You'll deliver them from a lot
of snares. So in this sense, the husband,
he's the deliverer, he's the protector of his wife. How often do you and I have to
go to the Lord? And we cast our burdens upon
Him to deliver us, to help us. And you wives can do the very
same thing with your husbands. You can come to your husband,
and because he's your husband, he's your Savior, he's your deliverer,
he's your helper in that capacity. And you just come and cast your
burdens, cast your cares upon Him as a wife. And if He's the
husband He ought to be, He will deliver you. Jo comes home sometimes. She went to work after the kids
got out of school and everything. But she comes home sometimes.
And she's had a stressful day. And several times I have told
her, babe, just call them. and tell them you'll give them
two weeks notice or whatever they need, and quit. And quit. Oh yeah, just quit. How are we
going to pay the bills? Put that burden on me. Put that
burden on me. I'm the husband. I supported
you before you ever went to work, and I'll do it again. If you
don't believe me, try me. Put that burden on me. I'll save
you from your stress. Isn't it wonderful being a wife?
Just put it on the husband. Put it on the husband. He's the
savior of the wife. I read a stat not long ago that
said young women were marrying older men in record numbers. I want to know something about
this. And she can probably tell you why. But the statistics said
this. The younger women were marrying
older men because they were kinder and gentler. And the second reason
was they were settled, they were dependable, reliable, and trustworthy. There are two things a woman
loves. And Paul mentions two of them
here. Nourished and cherished. She
wants to be nourished and cherished. She likes that. And she wants
a feeling of security. A feeling of security. They didn't
want to marry young people because they did not have that feeling
of security. And it worried them. It bothered
them. Well, Paul is telling us here,
your husband is your deliverer. Do you have stress? Are you distressed? Then go cast it on your husband. He's your Savior as a husband. He'll help me. He'll deliver
me. He'll save me. Boy, you wives have it made.
Do you know that? You do. You have it made. You have your place. You have
your work. You have your role. But you have
certain burdens, if you will. You can just bring them and cast
them on your husband. And he'll save you from them,
if he loves you as Christ says to love you. You've got it made. Husband can't
do that. You go to your husband and say,
Sweetheart, right before I fix you supper this evening, I think
I'll go take me a hot bubble bath. And by the way, you need
to bring in enough money tomorrow to pay the car payment. You've
got enough money tomorrow to pay the light bill, the grocery
bill. That's not my problem. That's not my worry. I'll fix
you supper, I'll wash your clothes, but I think right now I'll take
a hot bath. Just put it all on Him. He's your Savior. He's your Savior. You've got
it made, ladies. You've got it made, I'm telling
you. If I wasn't a man, I'd want to
be a woman. You got it made. And the Lord
is to be thanked because He's put you in that position. If
you're walking down the road, going for your evening walk,
and the man comes out and he's whistling at you and saying some
things he shouldn't be, go tell your husband. He'll protect you. He'll deliver you. It's not your
business to go up and slap his jaw. But your husband may put
a knot on his head. If you're out somewhere and you
get caught in trouble, what do you do? Get behind your husband. If someone's breaking in your
house, what do you do? Get behind your husband. If you're
sitting in the car and a hailstorm's coming, Mr. Becker, you'll never live
that damn life. See what I'm saying? See what
I'm saying? Put it on your husbands. My goodness,
you ladies are carrying too much. You're carrying too much. Put
it on your husbands. I hope that was a help to you.
Next week, the Lord will look at the husbands loving the wives. But let me go ahead now and read
verse 25. Husbands, love your wives. even
as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it, that
he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water
by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church,
not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should
be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives
as their own bodies. He that loves his wife, he loves
himself. For no man ever yet hated his
own flesh, but he nourisheth it and cherisheth it, even as
the Lord the Church. For we are members of his body,
of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave
his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and
they too shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery, but
I speak concerning Christ and the Church. that every one of
you in particular so love his wife even as himself, and the
wife see that she reverence, respect, and honor and submit
to her husband. God bless his Word.