Husbands Wives and Children
Husbands Wives and Children (Ephesians 5:21 - Ephesians 6:4)
5:21
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
5:22
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
5:23
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.
5:24
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
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That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
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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.
5:28
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
5:29
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
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For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
5:31
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
5:32
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
5:33
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
6:2
Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
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That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
6:4
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
6:5
Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
6:6
Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
6:7
With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men: