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along with them in the field ministry. (Deuteronomy 6:
6, 7) Your self-sacrificing love pleases the Originator of
family life and may mean everlasting life for your children.—Proverbs
22:6; Ephesians 3:14, 15.
17 Husbands, how can you imitate Jesus in showing selfsacrificing
love? The Bible answers: “Husbands, continue
loving your wives, just as the Christ also loved the congregation
and delivered up himself for it.” (Ephesians 5:
25) As we have seen, Jesus loved his followers so much
that he died for them. A Christian husband imitates the
unselfish attitude of Jesus, who “did not please himself.”
(Romans 15:3) Such a husband willingly puts his wife’s
needs and interests before his own. He does not rigidly insist
on having his own way, but he shows a willingness to
yield when there is no Scriptural issue involved. The husband
who shows self-sacrificing love gains Jehovah’s approval
and wins the love and respect of his wife and children.
What Will You Do?
18 Obeying the new commandment to love one another
is not an easy course to follow, but we have a powerful
motivation for doing so. Paul wrote: “The love the Christ
has compels us, because this is what we have judged, that
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who live might live no longer for themselves, but for him
who died for them and was raised up.” (2 Corinthians 5:
14, 15) Since Jesus died for us, should we not feel compelled
to live for him? We can do that by following his example
of self-sacrificing love.
17. How can Christian husbands imitate the unselfish attitude of Jesus?
18. What motivates us to follow the new commandment to love one
another?