Ephesians 5:22-33
Christian Standard Bible
Wives and Husbands
22 Wives,(A) submit[a](B) to your husbands(C) as to the Lord, 23 because the husband is the head of the wife(D) as Christ is the head(E) of the church. He is the Savior of the body.(F) 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives,(G) just as Christ loved(H) the church and gave himself(I) for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[b] her with the washing of water by the word. 27 He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.(J) 28 In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, 30 since we are members of his body.[c] 31 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,(K) and the two will become one flesh.[d](L) 32 This mystery(M) is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.
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Ephesians 5:22-33
International Standard Version
Wives and Husbands
22 Wives, submit yourselves[a] to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of his wife as the Messiah[b] is the head of the church. It is he who is the Savior of the body. 24 Indeed, just as the church is submissive to the Messiah,[c] so wives must be submissive[d] to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives as the Messiah[e] loved the church and gave himself for it, 26 so that he might make it holy by cleansing it, washing it with water and the word, 27 and might present the church to himself in all its glory, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind, but holy and without fault. 28 In the same way, husbands must love their wives as they love[f] their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one has ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, as the Messiah[g] does[h] the church.
30 For we are parts of his body—of his flesh and of his bones.[i] 31 “That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”[j] 32 This is a great secret, but I am talking about the Messiah[k] and the church. 33 But each individual man among you must love his wife as he loves[l] himself; and may the wife fear her husband.
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- Ephesians 5:22 Other mss. lack submit yourselves
- Ephesians 5:23 Or Christ
- Ephesians 5:24 Or Christ
- Ephesians 5:24 The Gk. lacks must be submissive
- Ephesians 5:25 Or Christ
- Ephesians 5:28 The Gk. lacks they love
- Ephesians 5:29 Or Christ
- Ephesians 5:29 The Gk. lacks does
- Ephesians 5:30 Other mss. lack of his flesh and of his bones
- Ephesians 5:31 Gen 2:24
- Ephesians 5:32 Or Christ
- Ephesians 5:33 The Gk. lacks he loves
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