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The Book of Ephesians, Chapter 5, Verse 21

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Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
King James Version
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
American Standard Version
Wives, [be in subjection] unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
New English Translation
not like those who do their work only when someone is watching– as people-pleasers– but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart.
World English Bible
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
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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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Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing.
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Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
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That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
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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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So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
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For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
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For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
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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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This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.