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Ephesians - ch 5 v 21 - 33
- Letting yourselves be ruled by one another in the fear of Christ.
- Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.
- For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.
- And as the church is under Christ's authority, so let wives be under the rule of their husbands in all things.
- Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;
- So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,
- And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete.
- Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:
- For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;
- Because we are parts of his body.
- For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
- This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.
- But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.
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