²²Wives,^l submit^E^m 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 ²⁴Now 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 ²⁸In 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 ³¹For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,^v and the two will become one flesh.^H^w ³²This mystery^x is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church. ³³To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.

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Footnotes

EOther omit submit
FOr having cleansed
GOther add and of his flesh and of his bones

Cross references

l 1Pt 3:1
m Gn 3:16; 1Co 11:3,7–9,11–12; Col 3:18; Ti 2:4–5; 1Pt 3:1–6
n 1Pt 3:1
o 1Co 11:3
p Col 2:10
q Col 3:18–4:1
r Col 3:19; 1Pt 3:7
s Jn 3:16; 1Co 13:1; 2Th 2:13
t Ti 2:14
u Jd 24
v 1Pt 3:1
H Gn 2:24
w Gn 2:24
x 1Co 2:7