[Pastor Ralph]

Q3. (Ephesians 5:28) In what sense is a husband's care for his wife's needs just common sense in taking care of his own needs? What is the principle from Genesis 2:24 that underlies this?

[Commissioned]

Q3. (Ephesians 5:28) In what sense is a husband's care for his wife's needs just common sense in taking care of his own needs? What is the principle from Genesis 2:24 that underlies this?

Genesis 2:24 (KJV) says:

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

It is only common sense that a normal man will not mistreat himself. Since his wife is one with the husband, as he treats her so he's treating himself. So that when he takes care of her needs he is doing the same for himself. The two are one.

[cct1106]

As the verse brings out husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. What a wonderful verse this is. No one hates their flesh and so the husbands treat with love, respect and honor.

[revmrf]

( Ephesians 5: 28 ) In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. )
He should be willing to sacrifice everything for her. He should make her well-being of primary importance. He should care for her as he cares for his own body.

The husband should realize he is to love and take care of his wife as Christ loves and takes care of the church. A wife is not a possession that he owns to come to his every bidding. She is a gift from God to him and must be treated as such.

Indeed, she is a gift from God and should be treated as such. Thank you for that.

[Helenmm]

Q3. (Ephesians 5:28) In what sense is a husband's care for his wife's needs just common sense in taking care of his own needs? What is the principle from Genesis 2:24 that underlies this?

A wife is as much part of a husband as his arms and legs are. Therefore he needs to take care of her in the same manner, to be sensitive to her as to his own needs, and to see that those needs are met. This includes psychological needs as well as physical, also to take care of discipline (with children) in the house so that she is respected and loved by them. They will largely follow his attitude towards her, so that needs to be positive and caring. If he treats her with this kind of love it will be easier for her to give him the respect that he so longs for. If he is responsive, her wisdom will not be lost on him. Her wisdom doesn't need to threaten his position in the family, but add to it. aChildren know exactly what is going on in the house, and they will be much easier to deal with if mother and father have unity together than if they are divisible through their own self-importance.

When a man marries a wife, she becomes part of him, which his parents are not and never were (because he was on loan to them by God to be brought up in wisdom). Therefore a man must not allow his parents to come between him and his wife. He must insist that they respect her and treat them as a single entity in society. The same actually goes for a woman, eg her relationship with her mother must not be permitted to intrude upon her proper relationship with her husband. This doesn't mean that parents will not be loved, cared for and respected by both. It simply means that everything will have its right order and priority.

In other words, when children marry, it is appropriate for parents to treat them more as they treat other adults, no longer as children. They are no longer in the "obey your parents" scenario because they are no longer children, although they might well seek parental wisdom on certain issues, and should certainly honour their parents.

[PCHRIS]

The husband is to love [agapao] his wife, not just because of the beauty he finds in her, but to make her more beautiful. Christ sees the Church in all her weaknesses and failures, and yet loves here as His body, and seeks her true sanctification.
We are not to love our wife as an extension of self love or because it is to our own advantage but to seek our own highest spiritual welfare, and so the highest good of our wife in every way, as united with us in the marriage bond.

Husband and wife are united as one.

[kiqstart]

Q3. (Ephesians 5:28) In what sense is a husband's care for his wife's needs just common sense in taking care of his own needs? What is the principle from Genesis 2:24 that underlies this?

When we were joined in marriage we became one, and it only makes sense to care of his wife, because he is also taking care of his self.

[JustJeff]

Though divorced for many years, my ex-wife is still very much a part of me, spiritually. I sense that we will always be part of one another in this way. For married couples I would imagine this oneness would be to the max, inclusive of an equally strong fleshly attachment. If so, the man would care and love for his wife as he would part of his physical body as they are one.
As Eve was created from Adam's body, though a separate and distinct person, she is of him, and he her, and they are one flesh. In God's eyes, married persons are the same.

[masika]

A husband should put aside his own interests in order to care for his wife.
Marriage was not just for convenience , nor was it brought about by culture . It was instituted by God , so the husband as to take total care of his wife and they are not two but one .

[Lisa Rupert]

Q3. (Ephesians 5:28) In what sense is a husband's care for his wife's needs just common sense in taking care of his own needs?
When God created the female she was a gift, and she should became joined in unity with him as one.
What is the principle from Genesis 2:24 that underlies this?
The princle of Gen 2:24 defines the joining of the two flesh to become one flesh.

[Stan]

Q3. (Ephesians 5:28) In what sense is a husband's care for his wife's needs just common sense in taking care of his own needs? What is the principle from Genesis 2:24 that underlies this?

A man cares for his wife as he cares for himself. A man must work and support his family and himself.He must be a leader as he works to support them.Christ provides for the church and its needs and as a follower of Christ a man must do the same for his wife and family.

The principle a man must leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and they become one flesh. A man in the pattern of Christ must take car of his family and most of all his wife.

[Stan]

Q3. (Ephesians 5:28) In what sense is a husband's care for his wife's needs just common sense in taking care of his own needs? What is the principle from Genesis 2:24 that underlies this?

A man cares for his wife as he cares for himself. A man must work and support his family and himself.He must be a leader as he works to support them.Christ provides for the church and its needs and as a follower of Christ a man must do the same for his wife and family.

The principle a man must leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and they become one flesh. A man in the pattern of Christ must take car of his family and most of all his wife.

[charisbarak]

As the husband would care for his body--grooming, feeding, listening to what his body is telling him & acting accordingly is somewhat how the husband should care for his wife. He should be able to meet her needs for shelter, food, caring, and being listened to by him. He needs to speak kindly and not seek to hurt her. Yes, Pastor, many men are very selfish/self-centered these days & though it looks as they are stronger, in fact, they have become weaker, because it is hard to respect a man who does not really love his wife.

The principle of two bodies becoming one flesh is the idea behind marriage.

[June]

When a wife's needs are satisfied the man is also satisfying himself. They became one flesh when they were united before God.

[BJB123]

1)Husband and wife are made as one in flesh when they are married. The husband would want to take care of his wife as he does himself (one in flesh).
2) One flesh.

The wife is a gift from God to the husband and the husband would treat her with respect, love and compassion.

[sis. dee]

Q3. (Ephesians 5:28) In what sense is a husband's care for his wife's needs just common sense in taking care of his own needs? What is the principle from Genesis 2:24 that underlies this?

In what sense is a husband's care for his wife's needs just common sense in taking care of his own needs?
The husband cares and love his wife as he would himself.


What is the principle from Genesis 2:24 that underlies this?

The man and wife is now one flesh, they are no longer two.

[godsanointed523]

In what sense is a husband's care for his wife's needs just common sense in taking care of his own needs? What is the principle from Genesis 2:24 that underlies this?

When you get married then you and the wife become one so everything that each one needs can be found in each other. The wife needs protection and comfort then the same things is the opposite way as well so it works hand in hand.

[Minchar]

Q3. (Ephesians 5:28) In what sense is a husband's care for his wife's needs just common sense in taking care of his own needs? What is the principle from Genesis 2:24 that underlies this?

You wouldn't do harm to yourself so why would you mistreat your wife. The bible states that a man should leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife so that they may become one flesh. What hurts the husband hurts the wife because they are one. When one suffers the other also suffer it is common sense.

[sahala p.s.]

Q3. (Ephesians 5:28) In what sense is a husband's care for his wife's needs just common sense in taking care of his own needs? What is the principle from Genesis 2:24 that underlies this?

A husband's care for his wife's needs is just common sense in taking care of his own needs in the sense of that his wife is his own body, so that “He who loves his wife loves himself” (Ep. 5:28b). The principle from Genesis 2:24 that underlies this is “the two will become one flesh” (Ep. 5:31).