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Ephesians 5:23

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For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

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  1. Ephesians 5:21

    Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

  2. Ephesians 5:22

    Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

  3. Ephesians 5:24

    Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

  4. Ephesians 5:25

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

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.