Daily Bible GNT June 22 Verses

Wives and Husbands

²¹Submit yourselves to one another because of your reverence for Christ.

²²Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as to the Lord. ²³For a husband has authority over his wife just as Christ has authority over the church; and Christ is himself the Savior of the church, his body. ²⁴And so wives must submit themselves completely to their husbands just as the church submits itself to Christ.

²⁵Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it. ²⁶He did this to dedicate the church to God by his word, after making it clean by washing it in water, ²⁷in order to present the church to himself in all its beauty--pure and faultless, without spot or wrinkle or any other imperfection. ²⁸Men ought to love their wives just as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself. (²⁹None of us ever hate our own bodies. Instead, we feed them, and take care of them, just as Christ does the church; ³⁰for we are members of his body.) ³¹As the scripture says, "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife, and the two will become one." ³²There is a deep secret truth revealed in this scripture, which I understand as applying to Christ and the church. ³³But it also applies to you: every husband must love his wife as himself, and every wife must respect her husband.

This reading is from The Holy Bible, Today's English Version, Second Edition copyright © American Bible Society, 1992;
Old Testament copyright © American Bible Society, 1976, 1992; New Testament © American Bible Society, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1992.

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