Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her,
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Ephesians 5:25 in context
Ephesians 5:22–28
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Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
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For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
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But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
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Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her,
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that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without defect.
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Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
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