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Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
For
the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is
the head of the church, his body, of which he is
the Savior. Now
as the church submits to Christ, so also wives
should submit to their husbands in everything.
Husbands,
love your wives, just as Christ loved the church
and gave himself up for her
to
make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
and
to present her to himself as a radiant church,
without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish,
but holy and blameless.
In
this same way, husbands ought to love their
wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife
loves himself.
After
all, no one ever hated his own body, but he
feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the
church— for we are members of his body.
"For
this reason a man will leave his father and
mother and be united to his wife, and the two
will become one flesh." This
is a profound mystery—but I am talking about
Christ and the church.
However,
each one of you also must love his wife as he
loves himself, and the wife must respect her
husband.
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