For the fine linen represents the righteous acts of the saints.^(C)

⁹ Then he^[a] said to me,^(D) “Write: Those invited to the marriage feast^(E) of the Lamb are fortunate!” He also said to me, “These words of God are true.”

² I also saw the Holy City, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,^(A) prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.^(B)

The New Jerusalem

⁹ Then one of the seven angels, who had held the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues,^(A) came and spoke with me: “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

Wives and Husbands

²² Wives,^(A) submit^[a](B) to your own husbands^(C) as to the Lord, ²³ for the husband is the head of the wife^(D) as Christ is the head^(E) of the church. He is the Savior of the body.^{(F) 24} Now as the church submits to Christ, so wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives,^(G) just as Christ loved^(H) the church and gave Himself^(I) for her ²⁶ to make her holy, cleansing^[b] her with the washing of water by the word. ²⁷ He did this to present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.^{(J) 28} In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, ³⁰ since we are members of His body.^[c]

³² This mystery^(M) is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church. ³³ To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.