Ephesians 5:22-33 | The Bride of Christ

Wives

Submit to your own husbands

As to the Lord

For the husband is the head of the wife

Even as Christ is the head of the church

His body, and is himself its Savior

Now as the church submits to Christ

So also wives should submit in everything

To their husbands

Husbands, love your wives

As Christ loved the church

And gave himself up for her

That he might sanctify her

Having cleansed her

By the washing of water

With the word

So that he might present the church

To himself in splendor

Without spot or wrinkle or any such thing

That she might be holy and without blemish

In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies

He who loves his wife loves himself

For no one ever hated his own flesh

But nourishes and cherishes it

Just as Christ does the church

Because we are members of his body

"Therefore a man shall leave his father

And mother and hold fast to his wife

And the two shall become one flesh."

This mystery is profound

And I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church

"Therefore a man shall leave his father

And mother and hold fast to his wife

And the two shall become one flesh."

This mystery is profound

And I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church

However

Let each one of you love his wife as himself

And let the wife see that she respects her husband