22 Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.

23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

24 And as the church is under Christ's authority, so let wives be under the rule of their husbands in all things.

25 Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;

26 So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,

27 And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete.

28 Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

29 For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;

30 Because we are parts of his body.

31 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

32 This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.

33 But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.

22 Mogli, siate soggette ai vostri mariti, come al Signore;

23 poiché il marito è capo della moglie, come anche Cristo è capo della Chiesa, egli, che è il Salvatore del corpo.

24 Ma come la Chiesa è soggetta a Cristo, così debbono anche le mogli esser soggette a loro mariti in ogni cosa.

25 Mariti, amate le vostre mogli, come anche Cristo ha amato la Chiesa e ha dato se stesso per lei,

26 affin di santificarla, dopo averla purificata col lavacro dellacqua mediante la Parola,

27 affin di far egli stesso comparire dinanzi a sé questa Chiesa, gloriosa, senza macchia, senza ruga o cosa alcuna simile, ma santa ed irreprensibile.

28 Allo stesso modo anche i mariti debbono amare le loro mogli, come i loro propri corpi. Chi ama sua moglie ama se stesso.

29 Poiché niuno ebbe mai in odio la sua carne; anzi la nutre e la cura teneramente, come anche Cristo fa per la Chiesa,

30 poiché noi siamo membra del suo corpo.

31 Perciò luomo lascerà suo padre e sua madre e sunirà a sua moglie, e i due diverranno una stessa carne.

32 Questo mistero è grande; dico questo, riguardo a Cristo ed alla Chiesa.

33 Ma daltronde, anche fra voi, ciascuno individualmente così ami sua moglie, come ama se stesso; e altresì la moglie rispetti il marito.