24 教会怎样顺服基督,妻子也要照样凡事顺服丈夫。

25 做丈夫的要爱妻子,正如基督爱教会,为教会舍己, 26 好借着自己的道用水洗净教会,使她圣洁,

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24 As the church serves Christ as its master, so wives should serve their husbands in everything.

25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church. He even agreed to die on its behalf. 26 He did that to make us completely clean, as the people of God. It was like he washed us with water, as he brought God's message to us.

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24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands(A) in everything.

25 Husbands, love your wives,(B) just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her(C) 26 to make her holy,(D) cleansing[a] her by the washing(E) with water through the word,

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 5:26 Or having cleansed