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

⁷ Husbands, in the same way, show consideration for your wives in your life together, paying honor to the woman—though the weaker vessel,^[a] they are joint heirs of the gracious gift of life—so that nothing may hinder your prayers.^(A)

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly.

²⁸ In the same way, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

²⁴ Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.^(A)

³³ Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect^[a] her husband.

² and walk in love, as Christ loved us^[a] and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.^(A)

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.

To him who loves us and freed^[a] us from our sins by his blood

⁴ who gave himself for our sins to set us free from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,^(A)

²⁰ and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God,^[a] who loved me and gave himself for me.^(A)