Ephesians 5:18–32

¹⁸And don’t get drunk^h with wine,ⁱ which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit:^{j 19}speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music with your heart to the Lord, ²⁰giving thanks always for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹submitting to one another in the fear of Christ.^k

WIVES AND HUSBANDS

²²Wives,^l submit^Em to your husbandsⁿ as to the Lord, ²³because the husband is the head of the wife^o as Christ is the head^p of the church. He is the Savior of the body.^{q 24}Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. ²⁵Husbands, love your wives,^r just as Christ loved^s the church and gave himself^t for her ²⁶to make her holy, cleansing^F her with the washing of water by the word. ²⁷He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.^{u 28}In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, ³⁰since we are members of his body.^{G 31}For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,^v and the two will become one flesh.^{Hw 32}This mystery^x is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church.