(Ephesians 5:21-5:33)
21Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
23For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the
head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24Now
as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to
their husbands in everything.
25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the
church and gave himself up for her 26to make her holy,
cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27and
to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or
wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28In
this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own
bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29After
all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for
it, just as Christ does the church—30for we are members
of his body. 31“For this reason a man will leave his
father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will
become one flesh.” 32This is a profound mystery—but I
am talking about Christ and the church. 33However, each
one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the
wife must respect her husband.
