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Ephesians 5:22-33 -
Wives and Husbands
Eph.5.22-33
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Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord;
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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;
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but just as the church is subject to Christ, so must women be to their husbands in everything.
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Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for it,
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to consecrate it, cleansing it by water and word,
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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.
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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.
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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,
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because it is his body, of which we are living parts.
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Gn.2.24
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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 one flesh'.
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It is a great truth that is hidden here. I for my part refer it to Christ and to the church,
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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.
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