Ephesians 5:21-33 - Wives And Husbands

²¹ being subject one to another in the fear of God.

²² Wives, be subject to your own husbands as to the Lord: ²³ for the husband is the head of the wife, as the Christ also is the head of the church; and he is the savior of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is subject to the Christ, so, also, let the wives be subject to their own husbands in every thing. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, as the Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it, ²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the bath of water through the word, ²⁷ in order that he might present it to himself a glorious church, having neither stain, nor wrinkle, nor any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. ²⁸ So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself; ²⁹ for no one ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Christ the church: ³⁰ because we are members of his body, being of his flesh, and of his bones.

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

³² Great is this mystery; but I speak of Christ and of the church. ³³ But yet, let each one of you so love his wife as himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.

¹ Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they may, without the word, be won by the conduct of their wives, ² by observing your blameless and reverential conduct. ³ Let not your adorning be that which is outward, which consists in plaiting the hair, and wearing gold, and putting on apparel: ⁴ but let it be the hidden man of the heart, adorned with the incorruptible ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which, in the sight of God, is of great price. ⁵ For, in former times, the holy women also, who trusted in God, thus adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands, ⁶ as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: and you are her children, if you do good, and fear no dismay.

⁷ Likewise, you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, bestowing honor on the wife as the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered.