Ephesians 5:21-33 - Wives And Husbands

²¹ submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ;

²² the wives, to their own husbands, as to the Lord; ²³ because a husband is head of the wife, as Christ also is Head of the assembly; Himself the Savior of the body. ²⁴ But, as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also let the women be to their husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the assembly, and delivered Himself up for it, ²⁶ that He might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of the water in the word, ²⁷ that He might present to Himself the assembly, glorious, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it may be holy and without blemish. ²⁸ So ought husbands also to 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, as also Christ the assembly; ³⁰ because we are members of His body.

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

³² This mystery is great; but I am speaking of Christ and of the assembly. ³³ Nevertheless, do ye also, severally, each one, so love his own wife, as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

¹ In like manner, ye wives, be subject to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they may, without the word, be gained through the conduct of their wives, ² having beheld your chaste conduct mingled with fear: ³ whose adorning, let it not be the outward one of braiding of hair and of wearing of golden ornaments, or of putting on apparel; ⁴ but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price. ⁵ For thus, in former times, the holy women also, who hoped in God, were wont to adorn themselves, submitting themselves to their own husbands; ⁶ as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, of whom ye became children; if ye do good, and fear no alarm.

⁷ Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with them according to knowledge, assigning honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.