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21 ) Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
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22 ) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
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23 ) For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
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24 ) Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
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25 ) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it,
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26 ) That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
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27 ) That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.
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28 ) So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself.
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29 ) For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord the church:
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30 ) For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
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31 ) For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
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32 ) This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
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33 ) Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself, and the wife see that she reverence her husband.