Ephesians 5:21-33 - Wives And Husbands

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

²² Let wives [be subject] to their husbands as to the Lord, ²³ for the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church; he is the savior of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is subject to Christ, so also let wives be subject to husbands in every thing. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it, ²⁶ that he might sanctify it, purifying it with the washing of water with the word, ²⁷ that he might present the church to himself glorious, not having a spot or wrinkle or any thing of the kind, but that it should be holy and blameless. ²⁸ Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself; ²⁹ for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also the church; ³⁰ for we are members of his body.

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

³² This is a great mystery; but I speak of Christ and the church. ³³ But do you also, individually, each one so love his wife as himself, and the wife [see] that she reverences the husband.

¹ In like manner let the women be subject to their husbands, that even if some disobey the word, they may be gained through the conduct of their wives without the word, ² seeing your pure mode of life in the fear [of God]. ³ Whose ornament let it not be the external [ornament] of braided hair and the putting on of chains of gold or of clothing, ⁴ but let the hidden man of the heart be adorned with the imperishable [ornaments] of a meek and quiet spirit, which are of great price before God. ⁵ For so formerly also the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves, being subject to their husbands, ⁶ as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, whose children you are, doing good and having no fear.

⁷ In like manner let the husbands [do], living together in knowledge with the wife as with a vessel of less strength, deeming them precious, co-heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.