>>I agree. A Husband is to love his wife and live with her in an understanding way. He is to love his wife as Christ loved the church - of course - He was willing and did die for the church...
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>The Church? What Church was that?
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>When Christ died he died a Jew. There was no Church, no Christians, no Catholics, no Protestants, no Baptits and all the thousand other sects. He died because he run afoul of the Romans, their customs and their laws. The Church you speak of was founded decades later by some other people. But you knew that already.

Ephesians 5:24-26
24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word,

I believe Christ died for me as well - even though I was not around at the time.