Efésios 5

Wives and Husbands

22 *For ch. 5:22–6:9,see Col. 3:18–4:1Wives, *See Gen. 3:16submit to your own husbands, *[ch. 6:5]as to the Lord. 23 For *1 Cor. 11:3the husband is the head of the wife even as *See ch. 1:22,23Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is *[1 Cor. 6:13]himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit *[Col. 3:20,22;Titus 2:9]in everything to their husbands.

25 *ver. 28, 33;[1 Pet. 3:7] Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and *ver. 2gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by *Titus 3:5;[Rev. 7:14] the washing of water *ch. 6:17;Heb. 6:5;See John 15:3with the word, 27 so *2 Cor. 11:2;See ch. 1:4that he might present the church to himself in splendor, *Song 4:7without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.*5:27 Or holy and blameless28 In the same way *ver. 25, 33husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30 because *[Gen. 2:23]; See 1 Cor. 6:15we are members of his body. 31 *Matt. 19:5;Mark 10:7,8;Cited from Gen. 2:24"Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and *1 Cor. 6:16the two shall become one flesh." 32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33 However, *ver. 25, 28let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she *1 Pet. 3:2,6respects her husband.