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22 Wives, submit to your own 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 the husband is head of the wife as also Christ is head of the church. He is the Savior of the 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 Now as the church submits to Christ, so wives should [submit] to their husbands in everything.
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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 also Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her,
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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 to make her holy, cleansing her in the washing of water by the word.
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26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
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27 He did this to present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and blameless.
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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 In the same way, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He 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 For no one ever hates his own flesh, but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for 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 since we are members of His body.
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30 for we are members of his body.
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31 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
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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."
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32 This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church.
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32 This is a profound mystery--but I am talking about Christ and the church.
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33 To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.
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33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
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