Ephesians 5:22-30

22Wives, obey your own husbands, as you obey the Lord.

23A husband has authority over his wife, in the same way that Christ has authority over the church. The church is like Christ's body. As its head, he saves her.

24As the church serves Christ as its master, so wives should serve their husbands in everything.

25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church. He even agreed to die on its behalf.

26He did that to make us completely clean, as the people of God. It was like he washed us with water, as he brought God's message to us.

27Christ himself did this to bring us to himself as a beautiful group of his people. His church would belong to him completely. It would be pure, without anything bad to spoil it.

28So husbands should love their wives, just as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife shows that he loves himself.

29There is nobody who hates his own body. Everyone feeds his body and he takes care of it. In the same way, the church is like Christ's body that he takes care of.

30We are like the parts of Christ's body.