GOD'S WORD Translation GW
New International Version NIV
21 Place yourselves under each other's authority out of respect for Christ.
21
Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 Wives, place yourselves under your husbands' authority as you have placed yourselves under the Lord's authority.
22
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.
23 The husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. It is his body, and he is its Savior.
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 As the church is under Christ's authority, so wives are under their husbands' authority in everything.
24
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.
25
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
26 He did this to make the church holy by cleansing it, washing it using water along with spoken words.
26
to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
27 Then he could present it to himself as a glorious church, without any kind of stain or wrinkle--holy and without faults.
27
and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
28 So husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself.
28
In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29 No one ever hated his own body. Instead, he feeds and takes care of it, as Christ takes care of the church.
29
After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—
30 We are parts of his body.
30
for we are members of his body.
31 That's why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will be one.
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.”
GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of God's Word to the Nations. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide.