Ephesians 5:22–33

^22*Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. ²³For a husband has authority over his wife just as Christ has authority over the church; and Christ is himself the Saviour of the church, his body. ²⁴And so wives must submit completely to their husbands just as the church submits itself to Christ.

^25*Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it. ²⁶He did this to dedicate the church to God by his word, after making it clean by washing it in water, ²⁷in order to present the church to himself in all its beauty—pure and faultless, without spot or wrinkle or any other imperfection. ²⁸Men ought to love their wives just as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹(People never hate their own bodies. Instead, they feed them and take care of them, just as Christ does the church; ³⁰for we are members of his body.) ^31*As the scripture says, “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife, and the two will become one.” ³²There is a deep secret truth revealed in this scripture, which I understand as applying to Christ and the church. ³³But it also applies to you: every husband must love his wife as himself, and every wife must respect her husband.