HUSBAND AND WIFE RELATIONSHIP....

The following is also mentioned in the lesson this morning, , Thursday, April 12th, 2012.

A husband must be the head of the family and must be the one to work hard to feed his family and to provide all his family's needs.

A wife must always manage the household and guide the children.

If you are not doing these yet, better change your ways of life so you will also be saved come Judgment Day!


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Ephesians 5:22-33

Today's New International Version (TNIV)

 ²² Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. ²³ 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. ²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
 ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ²⁶ to make her holy, cleansing^[a] her by the washing with water through the word, ²⁷ and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. ²⁸ In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ After all, people have never hated their own bodies, but they feed and care for them, just as Christ does the church— ³⁰ for we are members of his body. ³¹ “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”^{[b] 32} This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. ³³ However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Footnotes:

1. Ephesians 5:26 Or having cleansed
2. Ephesians 5:31 Gen. 2:24    "

WAYS TO RIGHTEOUSNESS.......

THINGS NOT TO DO TO BE RIGHTEOUS:

A. LAZINESS OR BEING IDLE

 Proverbs 12:24

Today's New International Version (TNIV)

 ²⁴ Diligent hands will rule,
   but laziness ends in forced labor.

Proverbs 19:15

Today's New International Version (TNIV)

 ¹⁵ Laziness brings on deep sleep,
   and the shiftless go hungry.

Ecclesiastes 10:18

Today's New International Version (TNIV)

 ¹⁸ Through laziness, the rafters sag;
   because of idle hands, the house leaks.

 B. GOSSIPING

1. Proverbs 11:13
   Gossips betray a confidence, but the trustworthy keep a secret.
   Proverbs 11:12-14 (in Context) Proverbs 11 (Whole Chapter)
2. Proverbs 16:28
   The perverse stir up dissension, and gossips separate close friends.
   Proverbs 16:27-29 (in Context) Proverbs 16 (Whole Chapter)
3. Proverbs 18:8
   The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to the inmost parts.
   Proverbs 18:7-9 (in Context) Proverbs 18 (Whole Chapter)
4. Proverbs 20:19
   A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid anyone who talks too much.
   Proverbs 20:18-20 (in Context) Proverbs 20 (Whole Chapter)
5. Proverbs 26:20
   Without wood a fire goes out; without a gossip a quarrel dies down.
   Proverbs 26:19-21 (in Context) Proverbs 26 (Whole Chapter)
6. Proverbs 26:22
   The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to the inmost parts.
   Proverbs 26:21-23 (in Context) Proverbs 26 (Whole Chapter)
7. Romans 1:29
   They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
   Romans 1:28-30 (in Context) Romans 1 (Whole Chapter)
8. 2 Corinthians 12:20
   For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.
   2 Corinthians 12:19-21 (in Context) 2 Corinthians 12 (Whole Chapter)    

C. STEALING

1. Hosea 4:2
   There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
   Hosea 4:1-3 (in Context) Hosea 4 (Whole Chapter)
2. Romans 2:21
   you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?
   Romans 2:20-22 (in Context) Romans 2 (Whole Chapter)
3. Ephesians 4:28
   Those who have been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need.
   Ephesians 4:27-29 (in Context) Ephesians 4 (Whole Chapter)