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What He Must Be: ...If He Wants to Marry My Daughter is unavailable, but you can change that!

All parents want their daughters to marry godly young men. But which qualities, specifically, should they be looking for? What will you say when that certain young man sits down in your living room, sweaty-palmed and tongue-tied, and asks your permission to marry your daughter? What criteria should he meet before the two of them join together for life? What He Must Be… If He Wants to Marry My...

entire list of duties to which husbands are called. Paul paints a beautiful picture of this Christlike selflessness in Ephesians 5 as he continues: In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. (Ephesians 5:28–30) This is perhaps the most challenging requirement. We are all selfish people. None of us is naturally