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Ephesians
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5
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22
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You wives will submit to your husbands as you do to the Lord.
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Ephesians
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5
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23
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For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of his body, the church; he gave his life to be her Savior.
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Ephesians
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5
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24
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As the church submits to Christ, so you wives must submit to your husbands in everything.
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NLT
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Ephesians
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5
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25
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And you husbands must love your wives with the same love Christ showed the church. He gave up his life for her
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NLT
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Ephesians
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5
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26
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to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and God's word.
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NLT
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Ephesians
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5
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27
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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.
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NLT
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Ephesians
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5
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28
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In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man is actually loving himself when he loves his wife.
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NLT
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Ephesians
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5
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29
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No one hates his own body but lovingly cares for it, just as Christ cares for his body, which is the church.
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NLT
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Ephesians
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5
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30
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And we are his body.
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NLT
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Ephesians
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5
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31
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As the Scriptures say, "A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one."
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NLT
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Ephesians
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5
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32
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This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one.
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NLT
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Ephesians
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5
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33
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So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
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