Lessons Husbands and Wives Can Learn

or Lessons Husbands and Wives Can Learn From Ephesians 4:25-5:33

1. Speak the truth in love.
2. Be angry, but do not sin in your anger. Do not let the sun go down on your anger. Deal with the problem. If you don’t, you give opportunity to Satan.
3. Let no corrupt talk come from your mouths, but only such as is good for building each other up—as fits the occasion—that it may give grace to those who hear.
4. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit!
5. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and slander (gossip) be put away from you, along with malice.
6. Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another.
7. Be imitators of God.
8. Walk in love.
9. “But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.”
10. Do not associate with those who walk in darkness.
11. Walk as children of light.
12. Discern what is pleasing to the Lord.
13. Take no part in unfruitful works of darkness, but expose them instead.
14. Watch how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of your time because the days are evil.
15. Understand what the will of the Lord is.
16. Give thanks in everything.
17. Submit to each other in reverence for Christ.
18. “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Saviour. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendour, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”