For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God, also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

 We may put it this way. Sin is that which interrupts the relationship which should exist between God and men. The object of sacrifice is to restore that lost relationship. The death of Christ upon the Cross, however we explain it, avails to restore the lost relationship between God and man. As Charles Wesley put it in verse: 