Christ and the Church: The Marriage Standard

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Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

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For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

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But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.

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Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

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that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

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that he might present the church 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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Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

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for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

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because we are members of his body.

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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

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This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.

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Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

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