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20 giving thanks to God the Father at all times and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
21 Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.
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Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord.
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Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.
23 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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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 Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands.
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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,
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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
26 in order to make her holy by cleansing her with the washing of water by the word,
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to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
27 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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and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
28 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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In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29 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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After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—
30 because we are members of his body.
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for we are members of his body.
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