Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord Because the husband is the head of the wife Just as Christ is the head of the church (He himself being the saviour of the body) But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives Should submit to their husbands in everything Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church And gave himself to sanctify her By cleansing her with the washing of The water by the word So that he may present the church To himself as glorious Without stain or wrinkle, or blemish, but holy and blameless In the same way husbands ought to love their wives As their own bodies, just as he loves himself For no one has ever hated his own body But feeds it, takes care of it, as Christ does the church For we are members of his body For this reason a man will leave his Father and mother and will be joined To his wife, and the two will become one flesh This mystery is great-but I am speaking of Christ and the church Nevertheless, each of you Must also love his wife as he loves himself And the wife must respect her husband