21 And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church.
24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.
25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her
26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word.
27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault.
28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself.
29 No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church.
30 And we are members of his body.
31 As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.”
32 This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one.
33 So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
GOOD NEWS TRANSLATION
21 Submit yourselves to one another because of your reverence for Christ.22 Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as to the Lord.
23 For a husband has authority over his wife just as Christ has authority over the church; and Christ is himself the Savior of the church, his body.
24 And so wives must submit themselves completely to their husbands just as the church submits itself to Christ.
25 Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.
26 He did this to dedicate the church to God by his word, after making it clean by washing it in water,
27 in order to present the church to himself in all its beauty—pure and faultless, without spot or wrinkle or any other imperfection.
28 Men ought to love their wives just as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself.
29 (None of us ever hate our own bodies. Instead, we feed them, and take care of them, just as Christ does the church;
30 for we are members of his body.)
31 As the scripture says, “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife, and the two will become one.”
32 There is a deep secret truth revealed in this scripture, which I understand as applying to Christ and the church.
33 But it also applies to you: every husband must love his wife as himself, and every wife must respect her husband.
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