Ephesians 5:22-30

22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as [a service] to the Lord.

23For the husband is head of the wife, as Christ is head of the church, Himself being the Savior of the body.

24But as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives should be subject to their husbands in everything [respecting both their position as protector and their responsibility to God as head of the house].

25Husbands, love your wives [seek the highest good for her and surround her with a caring, unselfish love], just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

26so that He might sanctify the church, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word [of God],

27so that [in turn] He might present the church to Himself in glorious splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy [set apart for God] and blameless.

28Even so husbands should and are morally obligated to love their own wives as [being in a sense] their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

29For no one ever hated his own body, but [instead] he nourishes and protects and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,

30because we are members (parts) of His body.