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Wiues, submit your selues vnto your own husbands, as vnto the Lord.

For the husband is the head of the wife, euen as Christ is the head of the Church: and he is the sauiour of the body.

Therefore as the Church is subiect vnto Christ, so let the wiues bee to their owne husbands in euery thing.

Husbands, loue your wiues, euen as Christ also loued the Church, and gaue himselfe for it:

That he might sanctifie & cleanse it with the washing of water, by the word,

That hee might present it to himselfe a glorious Church, not hauing spot or wrinckle, or any such thing: but that it should bee holy and without blemish.

So ought men to loue their wiues, as their owne bodies: hee that loueth his wife, loueth himselfe.

For no man euer yet hated his owne flesh: but nourisheth and cherisheth it, euen as the Lord the Church:

For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

For this cause shall a man leaue his father and mother, and shall be ioyned vnto his wife, and they two shalbe one flesh.

This is a great mysterie: but I speake concerning Christ and the Church.

Neuerthelesse, let euery one of you in particular, so loue his wife euen as himselfe, and the wife see that she reuerence her husband.