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Christ Loved the Church
Ephesians 5:1-33
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Ephesians 5: Love gives itself instead of consuming
Chapter 5 keeps returning to the difference between self-giving and grasping. The Book of Ephesians begins with Christ walking in love and giving himself, then sets sexual wrongdoing, uncleanness, covetousness, and corrupt speech against that pattern. The light imagery moves the recipients from merely being in light to being "light in the Lord," while wisdom becomes careful use of opportunity and understanding of the Lord's will. Spirit-filled life then sounds communal: psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, thanksgiving, and mutual submission. The household material grows out of that setting. Wives and husbands are addressed through the relation of Christ and the church, with the longest emphasis falling on a husband's duty to love by giving himself for the other's good. The one-flesh language of Genesis then makes care for the wife incompatible with detached self-interest and opens into the "great mystery" of Christ and the church.
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