Wives are to give glory to their husbands: Grooming Your Bride P/8

                                                      Read Part One HERE

In this post I continue sharing from the article "7 Steps To Groom Your Young Bride" written by Larry Solomon. This article can be found on his website Biblical Gender Roles.

Step #6  Mold Your Wife Into The Glorious Wife You Want Her To Be.

"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it; that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that He might present to Himself a glorious church, not having sport, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that is should be holy and without blemish." Ephesians 5:25-27

Larry Solomon:"Christ did not give up his life for His wife's happiness, He gave up His life to purchase His wife so that He could groom her into the wife He wanted her to be. And this is what God has called you as a Christian husband to do. in 1 Corinthians 11:7 the Bible tells us that     "... the woman is the glory of man"                                                                                                     and in 1 Corinthians 11:9 the Bible says                                                                                                   "woman was created for man."                                                                                                             These Scriptures teach that God created your wife for you, to bring you glory and when your wife brings you glory this brings God glory. So, you as a man bring glory to God by your submission and service to Him and your wife brings glory to God by her submission and service to you."

My Comment

Christ did not give up His life to purchase His wife so that He could groom her into the wife He wanted her to be. On the contrary, Jesus died to give His wife, the church, life....life eternal (John 10:10)... He became sin so in Him we can become the righteousness of God (2 Corinthians 5:21)..... 

As for 1 Corinthians 11:7                                                                                                                               "... the woman is the glory of man",                                                                                                  these words are part of a quotation from religious leaders in the church in Corinth that Paul rebuked later on in the chapter. Man and woman are made in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:26-28).                                                                                                                                                  And as for 1 Corinthians 11:9                                                                                                                "woman was created for man",                                                                                                               it should read "woman was created because of man." She was created because the man was lonely without her, was incomplete without her. The bible does not teach that God created the wife to bring glory to the husband and that when the wife brings glory to the husband she brings glory to God. On the contrary, the wife as well as the husband are both created to bring glory to God in whatever they say or do (1 Corinthians 10:31).

P.S. I will continue sharing from Step #6 Mold Your Wife Into The Glorious Wife You Want Her To Be  in my next post.

Read Part Nine HERE