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