22. Wives, place yourselves under your husbands’ authority as you have placed yourselves under the Lord’s authority.
23. The husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. It is his body, and he is its Savior.
24. As the church is under Christ’s authority, so wives are under their husbands’ authority in everything.
25. Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.
26. He did this to make the church holy by cleansing it, washing it using water along with spoken words.
27. Then he could present it to himself as a glorious church, without any kind of stain or wrinkle—holy and without faults.
28. So husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself.
29. No one ever hated his own body. Instead, he feeds and takes care of it, as Christ takes care of the church.