Marriage like Christ and the Church

22 (A)Wives, (B)subject yourselves to your own husbands, (C)as to the Lord. 23 For (D)the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the (E)head of the church, He Himself (F)being the Savior of the body. 24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.

25 (G)Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and (H)gave Himself up for her, 26 (I)so that He might sanctify her, having (J)cleansed her by the (K)washing of water with (L)the word, 27 that He might (M)present to Himself the church [a]in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be (N)holy and blameless.

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 5:27 Lit glorious

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

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33 Nevertheless, as for you individually, each husband is to (A)love his own wife the same as himself, and the wife must see to it that she (B)respects her husband.

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