having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;

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

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.