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Submit yourselves one to another as the
fear of God. Wives, show reverence for your own husbands,
as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife,
even as Christ is the head of the church and He is the savior
of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ,
so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wife, even as Christ also loved the
church, and gave Himself for it; that He might sanctify
and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word; that
He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having
spot, or wrinkles or any such thing; but that it should
be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their
wives as their own body; He that loves his wife loves himself.
For no man ever yet hateth his own flesh; but nourishes
and cherishes it, even as the Lord the church. For we are
members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For
this cause shall man leave his father and mother, and shall
be joined unto his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
This mystery is a profound one and I am saying this as it
refers to Christ and the Church; however, let husband love
his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respect
her husband.
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