Ephesians 5:22-33 (Amplified Bible)

²²Wives, be subject (be submissive and adapt yourselves) to your own husbands as [a service] to the Lord.

    ²³For the husband is head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the church, Himself the Savior of [His] body.

    ²⁴As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands.

    ²⁵Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

    ²⁶So that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the Word,

    ²⁷That He might present the church to Himself in glorious splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such things [that she might be holy and faultless].

    ²⁸Even so husbands should love their wives as [being in a sense] their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

    ²⁹For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and carefully protects and cherishes it, as Christ does the church,

    ³⁰Because we are members (parts) of His body.

    ³¹For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.^(A)

    ³²This mystery is very great, but I speak concerning [the relation of] Christ and the church.

    ³³However, let each man of you [without exception] love his wife as [being in a sense] his very own self; and let the wife see that she respects and reverences her husband [^[a]that she notices him, regards him, honors him, prefers him, venerates, and esteems him; and ^[b]that she defers to him, praises him, and loves and admires him exceedingly]. [I Pet. 3:2.]