Ephesians 5:18–32

¹⁸And do not be drunk with wine (in which is dissipation), but be filled by the Spirit, ¹⁹speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and singing praise in your heart to the Lord, ²⁰giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to the God and Father, ²¹being subject to one another out of reverence for^e Christ ²²—wives to their own husbands as to the Lord, ²³because the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church (he himself being the Savior of the body). ²⁴But as the church is subject to Christ, thus also wives should be subject^* to their husbands in everything.

Husbands and Wives

²⁵Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for her; ²⁶in order that he might sanctify her by cleansing her^* with the washing of water by the word; ²⁷in order that he might present to himself the church glorious, not having a spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she may be holy and blameless. ²⁸Thus also husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. The one who loves his own wife loves himself. ²⁹For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also Christ does the church, ³⁰because we are members of his body. ³¹“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”^{f 32}(This mystery is great, but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.)