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22 Wives, follow the lead of your husbands as you follow the Lord.
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22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
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23 The husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the church. The church is Christ's body. He is its Savior.
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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 The church follows the lead of Christ. In the same way, wives should follow the lead of 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. Love them just as Christ loved the church. He gave himself up 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 He did it to make her holy. He made her clean by washing her with water and 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 it to bring her to himself as a brightly shining church. He wants a church that has no stain or wrinkle or any other flaw. He wants a church that is holy and without blame.
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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. They should love them as they love their own bodies. Any 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 After all, people have never hated their own bodies. Instead, they feed and care for their bodies. And that is what 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 We are parts of his body.
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30 for we are members of his body.
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31 Scripture says, "That's why a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife. The two will become one."#1(Genesis 2:24)#2
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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 That is a deep mystery. But I'm 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 A husband also must love his wife. He must love her just as he loves himself. And a wife must 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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