having predestined us to adoption through Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will,

For he himself is our peace, who made both one and broke down the dividing wall of the partition, the enmity, in his flesh,

invalidating the law of commandments in ordinances, in order that he might create the two in himself into one new man, [thus] making peace,

and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, killing the enmity in himself.

built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,

The one who descended himself is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, in order that he might fill all [things].

And he himself gave some [as] apostles and some [as] prophets and some [as] evangelists and some [as] pastors and teachers

and live in love, just as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell.

because [the] husband is [the] head of the wife, as also Christ [is the] head of the church (he himself [being the] Savior of the body).

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for her;

in order that he might present to himself the church glorious, not having a spot or wrinkle or any such [thing], but that she may be holy and blameless.

Thus also husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. The one who loves his own wife loves himself.

Only you also, each one [of you], must thus love his own wife as himself, and the wife {must respect} her husband.