Ephesians 5:21-33 - Wives And Husbands

²¹ Submit yourselves one to another out of reverence for Christ.

²² Wives likewise to their husbands as to the Lord, ²³ because a husband is the head of his wife even as Christ is head of the church, his body, which he saves. ²⁴ But as the church submits itself to Christ, so also wives to their husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her, ²⁶ in order that after cleansing her in the bath of baptism, he might sanctify her by his word, ²⁷ so as to present her to himself, the church glorified, without spot or wrinkle or any such blemish; but on the contrary holy and faultless. ²⁸ That is how husbands ought to love their wives, as they love their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it as Christ does the church; ³⁰ for we are members of his body.

³¹ For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

³² There is a deep mystery here?? am speaking of Christ and his church. ³³ But as for you individually, you must each one of you love his own wife exactly as if she were yourself; and the wife, on her part, should reverence her husband.

¹ In the same way you wives must be submissive to your own husbands; so that if some of them will not believe the message, they may apart from the message be won over by the behavior of their wives, ² when they see how pure and reverent you are. ³ Your adornment ought not to be the outward adornment of plaited hair and golden jewels and the wearing of beautiful dresses; ⁴ but rather that hidden personality of the heart, the imperishable ornament of a quiet and gentle spirit, which in the sight of God is indeed precious. ⁵ For in this way in the olden time the holy women also, who put their trust in God, used to adorn themselves. They were ever in submission to their own husbands; ⁶ thus, for example, Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are daughters of Sarah, if you do what is right, and permit nothing to make you afraid.

⁷ In the same way you husbands live with your wives, according to knowledge, honoring your wife as of the weaker sex, yet as an heir with yourself of the grace of life; so that your prayers may not be hindered.