Ephesians 5:22–33

²²The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, ²³because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body, ²⁴but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything. ²⁵The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, ²⁶that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the bathing of the water in the saying, ²⁷that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished; ²⁸so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife—himself he doth love; ²⁹for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord—the assembly, ³⁰because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones; ³¹‘for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be—the two—for one flesh;’ ³²this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly; ³³but ye also, every one in particular—let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife—that she may reverence the husband.

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