God has clearly told us in His Word how husbands should love their wives—according to Eph. 5, "...just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her..." Husbands must love like our Lord did, where we lay aside our desires and our preferences and sacrificially love and serve our wives.

The Lord Jesus Christ is the greatest example of self-sacrificial love our world has ever seen. The eternal Son of God took to Himself human flesh so that He might die, not for His sins, because He had none, but for the sins of all those who would ever believe in Him.

The Bible not only calls husbands to love their wives sacrificially, but they must also demonstrate a love that sanctifies. This simply means that a husband's love for his wife must be deeply concerned with her spiritual progress in the Christian life.

In Ephesians 5 the apostle Paul teaches that all believing husbands must love their wives like Christ has loved the church. But in order for husbands to love in this way, they must actively purse biblical sanctification in their own lives.

In this great passage, after the apostle Paul lays the groundwork for a husband’s love for his wife—that it must be sacrificial and sanctifying—he goes on to describe that that love ought to be like the love and care he shows for his own body.

The Bible teaches that husbands are supposed to cherish their wives and show them honor and respect. In Ephesians 5 the apostle Paul empathically makes this point. A biblical husband is one who appreciates and values his wife and never humiliates or intimidates her.

As the apostle Paul continues to explain how husbands should love their wives, he quotes from Genesis chapter 2, which teaches that a man and a woman have become one flesh in marriage.

The Bible teaches that in God’s infinite wisdom He has created and determined what marriage is to be like. Not only has He defined it as a union between one man and one woman, He has said that it is a picture of how Christ loves His church.