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Husband must ensure that their walk with God attracts upon them favour with God and man. Such blessings that come upon them also benefit their wives, who are their own bodies. It is not possible for the head to retain for itself alone the blessings that it attracts. The head attracts blessings for the larger benefit of the whole body.
SICK HEAD. When the head is sick, the whole body is threatened and would ultimately be overwhelmed with that sickness. The body cannot lie in comfort when the head is sick. If not quickly attended to, the head could die. See 2 Kings 4:19-20.
And he said to his father, “My head, my head!” So he said to a servant, “Carry him to his mother.” When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
2 Kings 4:19-20
Husbands must take adequate care of their spiritual and physical health. The health of husbands would ultimately affect and overwhelm their wives as well. Husbands must take care of their health in love because doing that implies taking care of the health
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