Ephesians 5: 21 - 33
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Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.
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| 22
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Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord.
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| 23
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For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
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| 24
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As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands.
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Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
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that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
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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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Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
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For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the church,
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| 30
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because we are members of his body.
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| 31
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"For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
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| 32
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This mystery is a profound one, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church;
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| 33
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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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