"1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife."
I like 1. Corinthians 7. Celibacy is no lower, but is seen higher than marriage. Chad and Stacy has to limit their sexual power to monogamy. And no cucked sexless marriages because of verse 3/4.
" 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 Savior. 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,"
This was a little mind-punching epiphany I had this week at work about this verse of Ephisians 5. Think about, what the church is to Christ, so you know how women is to men . Hint: Roman 5:10. We were enemies of God.
There is also an Old Testament story, where one leader of Israel should see how God sees them by taking a whore as wive - what she remained also after marriage by going after other men. Women depicted in this and many other pictorial comparisons as the fleshly selfish weak human nature, which has to be controlled - but is loved by God nonetheless. I have to look it up.
