Ephesians 5

25 Husbands, love your wives,  * 5:25 Col 3:19; 1Pt 3:7 just as Christ loved  * 5:25 Jn 3:16; 1Co 13:1; 2Th 2:13 the church and gave himself  * 5:25 Ti 2:14 for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing  * 5:26 Or having cleansed her with the washing of water by the word. 27 He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.  * 5:27 Jd 24