New Testament in a Year

¹⁷ So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord wants. ¹⁸ Don’t get drunk on wine, which leads to wild living. Instead, be filled with the Spirit ^{[a] 19} by reciting psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs for your own good. Sing and make music to the Lord with your hearts. ²⁰ Always thank God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Advice to Wives and Husbands

²¹ Place yourselves under each other’s authority out of respect for Christ.

²² Wives, place yourselves under your husbands’ authority as you have placed yourselves under the Lord’s authority. ²³ The husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. It is his body, and he is its Savior. ²⁴ As the church is under Christ’s authority, so wives are under their husbands’ authority in everything.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it. ²⁶ He did this to make the church holy by cleansing it, washing it using water along with spoken words. ²⁷ Then he could present it to himself as a glorious church, without any kind of stain or wrinkle—holy and without faults. ²⁸ So husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ No one ever hated his own body. Instead, he feeds and takes care of it, as Christ takes care of the church. ³⁰ We are parts of his body. ³¹ That’s why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will be one. ³² This is a great mystery. (I’m talking about Christ’s relationship to the church.) ³³ But every husband must love his wife as he loves himself, and wives should respect their husbands.