Ephesians 5:22-33
New Living Translation
22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church. 24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.
25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word.[a] 27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. 28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. 29 No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church. 30 And we are members of his body.
31 As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.”[b] 32 This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. 33 So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must 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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