Ephesians 5:21-33 - Wives And Husbands

²¹ being submissive to one another in the fear of Christ.

²² Wives, be submissive to your own husbands, as to the Lord, ²³ because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is also the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is submissive to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives with divine love, as Christ also loved the church with divine love, and gave himself for her; ²⁶ in order that he might sanctify her, having purified her by the washing of water through the word, ²⁷ in order that he might present to himself the glorious church, having not spot or wrinkle or any of such things; but that she might be holy and blameless. ²⁸ So the husbands ought to love their own wives with divine love as their own bodies. The one loving his own wife is loving himself: ²⁹ for no one ever yet hated his own flesh; but he nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also the church; ³⁰ because we are members of his body:

³¹ on account of this a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife: and they two shall be one flesh.

³² This is a great mystery: but I speak in reference to Christ and the church. ³³ Moreover you also each one thus love his own wife with divine love as himself; and that the wife also reverence the husband.

¹ Likewise, ye wives, be submissive to your own husbands; in order that, if any do not believe the word, they shall be gained through the deportment of their wives, without the word; ² beholding your chaste deportment which is with reverence: ³ whose beauty, let it not be the external beauty of braiding the hairs, and wearing golds, or putting on of outer garments; ⁴ but let their beauty be the hidden man of the heart, in the purity of the meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is perfection complete. ⁵ For in this way in olden times the holy wives, the ones having hope toward God, were indeed accustomed to beautify themselves, submissive to their own husbands: ⁶ as Sarah submitted to Abraham, calling him Lord: whose children you have become, doing good, and not fearing any calamity.

⁷ Likewise, ye husbands, dwelling with the wife according to knowledge, as the weaker vessel, extending to them honor, as indeed the equal heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers should not be hindered.