Ephesians 5:26

26 to make it belong to God. Christ used the word to make the church clean by washing it with water.

Ephesians 5:26 In-Context

24 As the church yields to Christ, so you wives should yield to your husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it
26 to make it belong to God. Christ used the word to make the church clean by washing it with water.
27 He died so that he could give the church to himself like a bride in all her beauty. He died so that the church could be pure and without fault, with no evil or sin or any other wrong thing in it.
28 In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they love their own bodies. The man who loves his wife loves himself.
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