Ephesians 5:21-33

Christian Standard Bible

²¹ submitting to one another in the fear of Christ.^(A)

Wives and Husbands

²² Wives,^(B) submit^[a](C) to your husbands^(D) as to the Lord, ²³ because the husband is the head of the wife^(E) as Christ is the head^(F) of the church. He is the Savior of the body.^{(G) 24} Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives,^(H) just as Christ loved^(I) the church and gave himself^(J) 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.^{(K) 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] 31} For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,^(L) and the two will become one flesh.^{[d](M) 32} This mystery^(N) 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.