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NASB | Ephesians 5:25 ¶ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ephesians 5:25 ¶ Husbands, love your wives [seek the highest good for her and surround her with a caring, unselfish love], just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, |
Bible Question (short): Can wives be older than husbands? |
Question (full): I am 33 years old. I am in love with a man 5 years younger than me. We have been in this relationship for the past 7 years and through every step of it, we have prayed and asked for God's will to be done. We strongly believe that God brought us together. His parents are very much against this marriage because they say there is no instance in the Bible wherein a wife is older than her husband and hence, it is not allowed biblically. Moreover there is a lot of social stigma atached to this because we live in India. His parents say that many people have warned them against the marriage; they say that their son, who is considered a role model in church, will lose his ministry, his friends, his parents, his relatives, literally everything if he goes ahead with this mariage. Please, if anybody out there knows of any instance in the Bible wherein a wife is older than her husband, please send it to me. God bless you. |