Ephesians 5
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Ephesians 5:22-30

22Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

23For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

27so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

28In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,

30because we are members of his body.

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