New Testament in a Year

¹⁷ Therefore do not be foolish, but ^(A)understand what the will of the Lord is. ¹⁸ And ^(B)do not get drunk with wine, ^[a]in which there is ^(C)debauchery, but be ^(D)filled with the Spirit, ^19 (E)speaking to ^[b]one another in ^(F)psalms and ^(G)hymns and spiritual ^(H)songs, ^(I)singing and making melody with your hearts to the Lord; ^20 (J)always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to our ^(K)God and Father; ^21 [c](L)and subject yourselves to one another in the ^[d](M)fear of Christ.

Marriage like Christ and the Church

^22 (N)Wives, ^(O)subject yourselves to your own husbands, ^(P)as to the Lord. ²³ For ^(Q)the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the ^(R)head of the church, He Himself ^(S)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 (T)Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and ^(U)gave Himself up for her, ^26 (V)so that He might sanctify her, having ^(W)cleansed her by the ^(X)washing of water with ^(Y)the word, ²⁷ that He might ^(Z)present to Himself the church ^[e]in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be ^(AA)holy and blameless. ²⁸ So husbands also ought to ^(AB)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 ^(AC)parts of His ^(AD)body. ^31 (AE)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. ³³ Nevertheless, as for you individually, each husband is to ^(AF)love his own wife the same as himself, and the wife must see to it that she ^(AG)respects her husband.