31 (A)For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall [a]cleave to his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh.

32 [b]This is a great secret, but I speak concerning Christ, and concerning the Church.

33 [c]Therefore everyone of you, do ye so: let everyone love his wife, even as himself, and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 5:31 See Matt. 19:5
  2. Ephesians 5:32 That no man might dream of natural conjunction or knitting of Christ and his Church together (such as the husbands and the wives is) he showeth that it is secret, to wit, spiritual and such as far differeth from the common capacity of man: as which consisteth by the virtue of the Spirit, and not of the flesh by faith, and by no natural band.
  3. Ephesians 5:33 The conclusion both of the husband’s duty toward his wife, and of the wife’s toward her husband.

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