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21 submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
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Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
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Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
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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 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
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Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
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