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NASB | Ephesians 5:33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ephesians 5:33 However, each man among you [without exception] is to love his wife as his very own self [with behavior worthy of respect and esteem, always seeking the best for her with an attitude of lovingkindness], and the wife [must see to it] that she respects and delights in her husband [that she notices him and prefers him and treats him with loving concern, treasuring him, honoring him, and holding him dear]. [1 Pet 3:2] |
Subject: Is reverence feasible? Always? . . . |
Bible Note: Dear mommapbs, I can't see that it's clear in Gen 3:6 whether Adam was right there or not during Eve's temptation and sin. What is clear is that he kept neither her nor himself from transgression. You make a good point about perfect love casting out fear. I wonder, though, why wives are instructed to *fear* or *reverence* their own husbands. Along the same lines, it seems that either a wife or a husband doing what scripture prescribes would make the other's obedience to these instructions pretty much a cinch. Maybe that's part of the beauty of this - that none of us will do it perfectly all the time, but following the scriptural guide for our own end of the relationship makes it easier for the other to give to us what he/she ought to (what we want.) For the record, I agree that Rabbi Mark's physical, logical, emotional, *spiritual* superiority issue seems to go over the edge, yet there seems to be something about a husband's superiority, of whatever kind (I wonder if it's more or less simply a superior position that makes him accountable for family relationships, kind of like a *head self-sacrificer* as it were) that is relentless in the Eph 5 and 1Pet. 3 scriptures. Also, I don't see women as any more easily deceived than men, which seems to have been implied by Rabbi Mark's comment. Thank you for your help, I really do appreciate it! -srchng |