Indeed, all of us once behaved like them in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of our flesh and senses. By nature we were destined for wrath, just like everyone else.

There is but one body and one Spirit, just as there is but one hope resulting from the call you have received;

You must practice being kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has graciously forgiven you.

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

for a husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the Head of the church, His body, and Saviour of it.

Just as the church is subject to Christ, so the married women in everything must be subject to their husbands.

You married men must love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her,

for no one ever hates his own physical person, but he feeds and fosters it, just as Christ does the church;

just as he chose us in the Messiah before the creation of the universe to be holy and blameless in his presence. In love

and how this secret was made known to me through a revelation, just as I wrote about briefly in the past.