Ephesians 5:20-26

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁰ Giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God and the Father:

²¹ Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ.

²² Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord:

²³ Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body.

²⁴ Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it:

²⁶ That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life: