5 ²² Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord; 5 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; 5 ²⁴ but just as the church is subject to Christ, so must women be to their husbands in everything.
5 ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for it, 5 ²⁶ to consecrate it, cleansing it by water and word, 5 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. 5 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. 5 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, 5 ³⁰ because it is his body, of which we are living parts. 5 ^{31 [ Gn.2.24. ]} 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'.
5 ³² It is a great truth that is hidden here. I for my part refer it to Christ and to the church, 5 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.