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Passage Lookup: Ephesians 5:22-33
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Ephesians 5:22
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Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
Ephesians 5:23
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For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
Ephesians 5:24
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Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Ephesians 5:25
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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
Ephesians 5:26
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to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
Ephesians 5:27
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and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
Ephesians 5:28
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In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:29
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After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church—
Ephesians 5:30
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for we are members of his body.
Ephesians 5:31
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"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."
Ephesians 5:32
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This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.
Ephesians 5:33
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However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
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