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Ephesians 5:21-31

21 Out of respect for Christ, be courteously reverent to one another.

21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

22 Wives, understand and support your husbands in ways that show your support for Christ.

22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.

23 The husband provides leadership to his wife the way Christ does to his church, not by domineering but by cherishing.

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 So just as the church submits to Christ as he exercises such leadership, wives should likewise submit to their husbands.

24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

25 Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church - a love marked by giving, not getting.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

26 Christ's love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her,

26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

27 dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness.

27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

28 And that is how husbands ought to love their wives. They're really doing themselves a favor - since they're already "one" in marriage.

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 abuses his own body, does he? No, he feeds and pampers it. That's how Christ treats us, 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 since we are part of his body.

30 for we are members of his body.

31 And this is why a man leaves father and mother and cherishes his wife. No longer two, they become "one flesh."

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.”