Ephesians 5:18–32

¹⁸Don’t get drunk on wine, which leads to wild living. Instead, be filled with the Spirit^b19by reciting psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs for your own good. Sing and make music to the Lord with your hearts. ²⁰Always thank God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.  

Advice to Wives and Husbands

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

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

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