| DB1 | | Wives and Husbands Eph.5.22-33 | NEB Contents | notes| 5 | New English Bible (New Testament) | Passage | New Testament in Greek (UBS.Ed.26) |
| 22 | Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord; | Wives and Husbands Eph.5.22-33 | Αἱ γυναῖκες τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν ὡς τῷ κυρίῳ, |
| 23 | for the man is the head of the woman, just as Christ also is the head of the church. Christ is, indeed, the Saviour of the body; | ὁτι ἀνήρ ἐστιν κεφαλὴ τῆς γυναικὸς ὡς καὶ ὁ Χριστὸς κεφαλὴ τῆς ἐκκλησίας, αὐτὸς σωτὴρ τοῦ σώματος. | |
| 24 | but just as the church is subject to Christ, so must women be to their husbands in everything. | ἀλλὰ ὡς ἡ ἐκκλησία ὑποτάσσεται τῷ Χριστῷ, οὑτως καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες τοῖς ἀνδράσιν ἐν παντί. | |
| 25 | Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for it, | Οἱ ἀνδρες, ἀγαπᾶτε τὰς γυναῖκας, καθὼς καὶ ὁ Χριστὸς ἠγάπησεν τὴν ἐκκλησίαν καὶ ἑαυτὸν παρέδωκεν ὑπὲρ αὐτῆς, | |
| 26 | to consecrate it, cleansing it by water and word, | ἵνα αὐτὴν ἀγιάσῃ καθαρίσας τῷ λουτρῷ τοῦ ὑδατος ἐν ῥήματι, | |
| 27 | so that he might present the church to himself all glorious, with no stain or wrinkle or anything of the sort, but holy and without blemish. | ἵνα παραστήσῃ αὐτὸς ἑαυτῷ ἐνδοξον τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, μὴ ἐχουσαν σπίλον ἢ ῥυτίδα ἠ τι τῶν τοιούτων, ἀλλ' ἵνα ᾖ ἀγία καὶ ἀμωμος. | |
| 28 | In the same way men also are bound to love their wives, as they love their own bodies. In loving his wife a man loves himself. | οὑτως ὀφείλουσιν καὶ οἱ ἀνδρες ἀγαπᾶν τὰς ἑαυτῶν γυναῖκας ὡς τὰ ἑαυτῶν σώματα. ὁ ἀγαπῶν τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γυναῖκα ἑαυτὸν ἀγαπᾷ, | |
| 29 | For no one ever hated his own body: on the contrary, he provides and cares for it; and that is how Christ treats the church, | οὐδεὶς γάρ ποτε τὴν ἑαυτοῦ σάρκα ἐμίσησεν, ἀλλὰ ἐκτρέφει καὶ θάλπει αὐτήν, καθὼς καὶ ὁ Χριστὸς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, | |
| 30 | because it is his body, of which we are living parts. | ὁτι μέλη ἐσμὲν τοῦ σώματος αὐτοῦ. | |
| 31 | Thus it is that (in the words of Scripture) 'a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become a single body'. | - a man shall leave his father and mother Eph.5.31 | Gn.2.24 | ἀντὶ τούτου καταλείψει ἄνθρωπος τὸν πατέρα καὶ τὴν μητέρα καὶ προσκολληθήσεται πρὸς τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔσονται οἱ δύο εἰς σάρκα μίαν. |
| 32 | It is a great truth that is hidden here. I for my part refer it to Christ and to the church, | τὸ μυστήριον τοῦτο μέγα ἐστίν, ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω εἰς Χριστὸν καὶ εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν. | |
| 33 | but it applies also individually: each of you must love his wife as his very self; and the woman must see to it that she pays her husband all respect. | πλὴν καὶ ὑμεῖς οἱ καθ' ἑνα ἑκαστος τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γυναῖκα οὑτως ἀγαπάτω ὡς ἑαυτόν, ἡ δὲ γυνὴ ἵνα φοβῆται τὸν ἀνδρα. | |