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MARRIED

MARRIED

Husbands, love your wives,

as Christ loved the church

and gave Himself up for her,

So that he might sanctify her,

having cleansed her by the

washing of water with the Word,

That He might present the church

to Himself in glorious splendor,

without spot or wrinkle or any such

things (that she might be holy, perfect).

Even so husbands, should love their

wives as (being in a sense), their own

bodies.

(Ephesians5.25-28).

DEAD TO THE LAW

Do you not know brothers and sisters,

for I am speaking to those who are

acquainted with the Law, that the legal claims

have power over a person only for as

long as he or she is alive?

For instance, a married woman is bound

by law to her husband as long as he lives,

but if her husband dies, she is discharged

from the law concerning her husband.

Accordingly, if while her husband lives,

she marries another man, she will be

called an adulteress, but if her husband

dies, she is free from that law, so that

if she marries another man she is not an

adulteress.

Likewise my brothers and sisters you

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