Ephesians 5: 21-33 |
21. submitting to one another in the fear of God |
22. Wives, submit to your husbands, as to the Lord. |
23. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of
the church; and He is the Savior of the body.(and died for us putting our benefit and future over His own comfort) |
24. Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the
wives be to their own husbands in everything. |
25. Husbands, (Agapao or God filled love) love your wives, just as
Christ also loved (Agapao or God filled love) the church
and gave himself for her, |
26. that he might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water
by the word, |
27. that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having
spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should
be holy and without blemish. |
28. So husbands ought to love (Agapao or God filled love) their own
wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves
(Agapao or God filled love) himself. |
29. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes
it, just as the Lord does the church. |
30. For we are members of His body, of His flesh and His bones. |
31. "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be
joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." |
32. This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the
church. |
33. Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love (Agapao
or God filled love) his own wife as himself, and let the wife
see that she respects her husband. |