RP: opinions needed
I am part jewish but not really religious and FH is christian. We are having an interfaith ceremony. My FMIL really wants to read the following passage out of the new testiment.
Ladies, I need your opinion on this passage as it does not seem like a passage that should be read at a wedding. I do not mean to offend anyone but I would like other peoples perspective on this before I tell FMIL that I do not want it read.
Eph.5:22 Wives, [be subject] to your own husbands, as to the
Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is
the head of the church, He Himself [being] the Savior of the
body. 24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives
[ought to be] to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love
your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up
for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by
the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might present to
Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any
such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. 28 So
husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He
who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his
own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also [does]
the church, 30 because we are members of His body. 31 For this
reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to
his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. 32 This mystery is
great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the
church. 33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love
his own wife even as himself, and the wife must [see to it] that she
respects her husband.
Ladies, I need your opinion on this passage as it does not seem like a passage that should be read at a wedding. I do not mean to offend anyone but I would like other peoples perspective on this before I tell FMIL that I do not want it read.
Eph.5:22 Wives, [be subject] to your own husbands, as to the
Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is
the head of the church, He Himself [being] the Savior of the
body. 24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives
[ought to be] to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love
your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up
for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by
the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might present to
Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any
such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. 28 So
husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He
who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his
own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also [does]
the church, 30 because we are members of His body. 31 For this
reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to
his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. 32 This mystery is
great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the
church. 33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love
his own wife even as himself, and the wife must [see to it] that she
respects her husband.
