What kind of love does God expect husbands and wives to show each other? - Love - TouchPoints

Song of Songs 8:6-7Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as enduring as the grave. Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame. Many waters cannot quench love, nor can rivers drown it. If a man tried to buy love with all his wealth, his offer would be utterly scorned.

Song of Songs is a book about the love husbands and wives should have for each other. True marital love is exclusive and permanent, sealing our hearts in faithfulness to our mate. It is a giving love, not a taking love. It involves offering oneself to another, not laying claim to another.

Ephesians 5:24-25As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything. For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her

After love for God, nothing should take greater priority than the giving, sacrificial love we must show to a spouse. This love helps us learn more about how we are to love God, and it is an example to those who are learning about love and about God.