Ephesians 5:20-30 (New Revised Standard)
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giving thanks to God the Father at all times and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.
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Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord.
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For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior.
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Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands.
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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
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in order to make her holy by cleansing her with the washing of water by the word,
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so as to present the church to himself in splendor, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind—yes, so that she may be holy and without blemish.
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In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
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For no one ever hates his own body, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,
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because we are members of his body. a
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Revised Standard Bible Version Online)
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