A moment in scripture
Ephesians 5:26
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That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
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The surrounding passage
- Ephesians 5:24
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
- Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
- Ephesians 5:27
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
- Ephesians 5:28
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.