¹⁷ Sanctify them in the truth [set them apart for Your purposes, make them holy]; Your word is truth.

¹⁹ For their sake ^[a]I sanctify Myself [to do Your will], so that they also may be sanctified [set apart, dedicated, made holy] in [Your] truth.

³ You are already clean because of the word which I have given you [the teachings which I have discussed with you].

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives [seek the highest good for her and surround her with a caring, unselfish love], just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, ²⁶ so that He might sanctify the church, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word [of God],