21 Submit to one another (B) out of reverence for Christ. 22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands (C) as you do to the Lord.

A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians. Brothers and sisters: Live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and ...

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord.

[23] For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. [24] As the church is subject to Christ, ...

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.

* [5:21–33] The apostle exhorts married Christians to a strong mutual love. Holding with Gn 2:24 that marriage is a divine institution (Eph 5:31), Paul sees ...

submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the...

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