Christ and the Church: The Marriage Standard

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The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

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because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

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but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything.

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The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

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that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the bathing of the water in the saying,

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that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

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so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love;

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for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord--the assembly,

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because members we are 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 to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;'

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this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

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but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

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