So [also] husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. Ephesians 5:28 NABRE Paul speaks of love in this somewhat famous passage about Christ’s love for the community and addresses the love between husband and wife. For Christ, the bond of marriage…
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On that day—oracle of the LORD— You shall call me “My husband,” and you shall never again call me “My baal.” Hosea 2:18 NABRE Hosea is another prophet of God who speaks about the infidelity of Israel to God. Hosea speaks of his own wife and compares her living to…
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and the two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two but one flesh. Mark 10:8 NABRE Jesus is challenged by religious leaders about divorce. Moses allowed a bill of divorce, a way for the woman to be freed from her obligation to her husband and allow her…
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Jesus answered them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.” Mark 2:19 NABRE Jews were challenged to fast one day a year, Pharisees and other religious leaders fasted two times a week and John…
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But the days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days. Luke 5:35 NABRE Jesus is asked a question about His disciples and fasting. Leaders often ask their disciples to fast and enact self-denial as a means to bring themselves…
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