Lesson: Family Peace<br>
Reading: God’s plan for marriage<br>
Reference: Eph. 5:25-33<br><br>
Ephesians 5:25: Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;<br>
Ephesians 5:26: That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,<br>
Ephesians 5:27: 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.<br>
Ephesians 5:28: So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.<br>
Ephesians 5:29: For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:<br>
Ephesians 5:30: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.<br>
Ephesians 5:31: For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.<br>
Ephesians 5:32: This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.<br>
Ephesians 5:33: Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband. <br>
(KJV)<br>