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.) ³³Only you also, each one of you, must thus love his own wife as himself, and the wife must respect^g her husband.

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Footnotes

*The words “should be subject” are not in the Greek text, but are an understood repetition from the previous clause
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
fA quotation from Gen 2:24
gLiterally “that she fear”