🛡️WEB · Ephesians 5:23
What does Ephesians 5:23 mean?
"For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body."
— Ephesians 5:23 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
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