Ephesians 5:22-33 NKJV


Ephesians 5:22-33 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church, and He is the Savior of the body.


Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.


Husbands, love your wives just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,


that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,


that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.


So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.


For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.


For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones,


"for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."


This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.


Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.


1 Corinthians 11:1-3 Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.


Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember me in all things and keep the traditions just as I delivered them to you.


But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.


Colossians 1:15-23 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.


For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones of dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created through Him and for Him.


And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.


And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.


For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell,


and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.


And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled


in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight--


if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.