International Children’s Bible

Ephesians 5:21-27 International Children’s Bible (ICB)

21. Be willing to obey each other. Do this because you respect Christ.

22. Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.

23. The husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. The church is Christ’s body—Christ is the Savior of the body.

24. The church is under the authority of Christ. So it is the same with you wives. You should be under the authority of your husbands in everything.

25. Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church. Christ died for the church

26. to make it belong to God. Christ used the word to make the church clean by washing it with water.

27. Christ died so that he could give the church to himself like a bride in all her beauty. He died so that the church could be pure and without fault, with no evil or sin or any other wrong thing in it.