31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”[a] 32 (This mystery is great, but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.) 33 Only you also, each one of you, must thus love his own wife as himself, and the wife must respect[b] her husband.

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 5:31 A quotation from Gen 2:24
  2. Ephesians 5:33 Literally “that she fear”