Ephesians 5:18–33 · BSB
5:18
Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
5:19
Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,
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5:20
always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
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Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
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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.
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Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
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to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
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and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.
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In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
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Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.
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For we are members of His body.
5:31
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
5:32
This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.
5:33
Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
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