Ephesians 5
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Ephesians 5:24-28

24But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.

251Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and 2gave Himself up for her, 263so that He might sanctify her, having 4cleansed her by the 5washing of water with 6the word, 27that He might 7present to Himself the church 8in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be 9holy and blameless. 28So husbands ought also to 10love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;

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Notes

  1. 1. Ephesians 5:25 Eph 5:28, 33; Col 3:19; 1 Pet 3:7 ↩
  2. 2. Ephesians 5:25 Eph 5:2 ↩
  3. 3. Ephesians 5:26 Titus 2:14; Heb 10:10, 14, 29; 13:12 ↩
  4. 4. Ephesians 5:26 2 Pet 1:9 ↩
  5. 5. Ephesians 5:26 Acts 22:16; 1 Cor 6:11; Titus 3:5 ↩
  6. 6. Ephesians 5:26 John 15:3; 17:17; Rom 10:8f; Eph 6:17 ↩
  7. 7. Ephesians 5:27 2 Cor 4:14; 11:2; Col 1:22 ↩
  8. 8. Ephesians 5:27 Lit glorious ↩
  9. 9. Ephesians 5:27 Eph 1:4 ↩
  10. 10. Ephesians 5:28 Eph 5:25, 33; 1 Pet 3:7 ↩

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