Efésios 5

Marriage—Christ and the Church

22 Wives, *Eph. 5:22—6:9; Col. 3:18—4:1; 1 Pet. 3:1–6submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For *(1 Cor. 11:3)the husband is head of the wife, as also *Col. 1:18Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands *Titus 2:4, 5in everything.

25 *Eph. 5:28, 33; Col. 3:19; (1 Pet. 3:7)Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and *Acts 20:28gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her *John 3:5with the washing of water *(John 15:3; 17:17; Rom. 10:8; Eph. 6:17)by the word, 27 *(2 Cor. 4:14; 11:2); Col. 1:22that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, *Song 4:7not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. 28 So husbands ought to love their own 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 the Lord does the church. 30 For *Gen. 2:23we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. 31 *Gen. 2:24; Matt. 19:5; Mark 10:7"For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the *(1 Cor. 6:16)two shall become one flesh." 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless *Col. 3:19let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she *1 Pet. 3:1, 6respects her husband.