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20 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, always give thanks for everything to God the Father.
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20 always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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21 Submit yourselves to one another because of your reverence for Christ.
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21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
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22 Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as to the Lord.
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22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
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23 For a husband has authority over his wife just as Christ has authority over the church; and Christ is himself the Savior of the church, his body.
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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.
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24 And so wives must submit themselves completely to their husbands just as the church submits itself to Christ.
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24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
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25 Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.
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25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
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26 He did this to dedicate the church to God by his word, after making it clean by washing it in water,
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26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
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27 in order to present the church to himself in all its beauty - pure and faultless, without spot or wrinkle or any other imperfection.
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27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
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28 Men ought to love their wives just as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself
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28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
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29 (None of us ever hate our own bodies. Instead, we feed them, and take care of them, just as Christ does the church;
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29 After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church--
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30 for we are members of his body.)
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30 for we are members of his body.
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| Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission. (The Good News Translation - The Holy Bible Online) |
Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |
