Ephesians 5:22-33
Wives and Husbands
22aWives, bbe subject to your own husbands, cas to the Lord. 23For athe husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the bhead of the church, He Himself cbeing the Savior of the body. 24But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.
25aHusbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and bgave Himself up for her, 26aso that He might sanctify her, having bcleansed her by the cwashing of water with dthe word, 27that He might apresent to Himself the church 1in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she would be bholy and blameless. 28So husbands ought also to alove their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30because we are amembers of His bbody. 31aFor this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. 32This mystery is great, but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. 33Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to alove his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she 1,brespects her husband.