2. Ephesians 5:22
(NIV)
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as you do to the lord.
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3. Ephesians 5:23
(NIV)
For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the savior
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4. Ephesians 5:24
(NIV)
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything
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5. Ephesians 5:25
(NIV)
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.
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6. Ephesians 5:26
(NIV)
To make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word.
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7. Ephesians 5:27
(NIV)
And to present himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless
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8. Ephesians 5:28
(NIV)
In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself
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9. Ephesians 5:29
(NIV)
After all, no one ever hates their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church
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11. Ephesians 5:31
(NIV)
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh
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12. Ephesians 5:32
(NIV)
This is a profound mystery-but I am talking about Christ and the church
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13. Ephesians 5:33
(NIV)
However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband
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