5:21 |
Be subject to one another in the fear of Christ. |
5:22 |
Wives should be submissive to their husbands, as to the Lord. |
5:23 |
For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the Church. He is the Savior of his body. |
5:24 |
Therefore, just as the Church is subject to Christ, so also should wives be subject to their husbands in all things. |
5:25 |
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and handed himself over for her, |
5:26 |
so that he might sanctify her, washing her clean by water and the Word of life, |
5:27 |
so that he might offer her to himself as a glorious Church, not having any spot or wrinkle or any such thing, so that she would be holy and immaculate. |
5:28 |
So, too, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. |
5:29 |
For no man has ever hated his own flesh, but instead he nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also does to the Church. |
5:30 |
For we are a part of his body, of his flesh and of his bones. |
5:31 |
“For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.” |
5:32 |
This is a great Sacrament. And I am speaking in Christ and in the Church. |
5:33 |
Yet truly, each and every one of you should love his wife as himself. And a wife should fear her husband. |