Ephesians 5:21-32

New American Standard Bible

^21 [a](A)and subject yourselves to one another in the ^[b](B)fear of Christ.

Marriage like Christ and the Church

^22 (C)Wives, ^(D)subject yourselves to your own husbands, ^(E)as to the Lord. ²³ For ^(F)the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the ^(G)head of the church, He Himself ^(H)being the Savior of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.

^25 (I)Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and ^(J)gave Himself up for her, ^26 (K)so that He might sanctify her, having ^(L)cleansed her by the ^(M)washing of water with ^(N)the word, ²⁷ that He might ^(O)present to Himself the church ^[c]in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be ^(P)holy and blameless. ²⁸ So husbands also ought to ^(Q)love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; ²⁹ for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, ³⁰ because we are ^(R)parts of His ^(S)body. ^31 (T)For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. ³² This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.