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24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
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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, as Christ loved the church and 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 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with 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 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
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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 hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does 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 because we are members of his body.
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30 for we are members of his body.
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31 "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall 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, and I am saying that it refers to 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 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects 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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