25 (A)Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and (B)gave Himself for her, 26 that He might [a]sanctify and cleanse her (C)with the washing of water (D)by the word,

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 5:26 set it apart

25 And you husbands, show the same kind of love to your wives as Christ showed to the Church when he died for her, 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and God’s Word;[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 5:26 washed by baptism and God’s Word, literally, “having cleansed it by washing of water with the word.”