¹⁸ Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; ^(A)I will make him a helper ^[a]suitable for him.” ^19 (B)And out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the sky, and ^(C)brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. ²⁰ The man gave names to all the livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field, but for ^[b]Adam there was not found ^(D)a helper ^[c]suitable for him. ²¹ So the Lord God caused a ^(E)deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. ²² And the Lord God ^[d]fashioned into a woman ^(F)the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. ²³ Then the man said,

^24 (H)For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

^21 [a](A)and subject yourselves to one another in the ^[b](B)fear of Christ.

Marriage like Christ and the Church

^22 (C)Wives, ^(D)subject yourselves to your own husbands, ^(E)as to the Lord. ²³ For ^(F)the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the ^(G)head of the church, He Himself ^(H)being the Savior of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.

^25 (I)Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and ^(J)gave Himself up for her, ^26 (K)so that He might sanctify her, having ^(L)cleansed her by the ^(M)washing of water with ^(N)the word, ²⁷ that He might ^(O)present to Himself the church ^[c]in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be ^(P)holy and blameless. ²⁸ So husbands also ought to ^(Q)love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; ²⁹ for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, ³⁰ because we are ^(R)parts of His ^(S)body. ^31 (T)For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. ³² This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. ³³ Nevertheless, as for you individually, each husband is to ^(U)love his own wife the same as himself, and the wife must see to it that she ^(V)respects her husband.