Old Testament

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Ephesians 5:19-29 New Century Version (NCV)

19. Speak to each other with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music in your hearts to the Lord.

20. Always give thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

21. Yield to obey each other as you would to Christ.

22. Wives, yield to your husbands, as you do to the Lord,

23. because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. And he is the Savior of the body, which is the church.

24. As the church yields to Christ, so you wives should yield to your husbands in everything.

25. Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it

26. to make it belong to God. Christ used the word to make the church clean by washing it with water.

27. He died so that he could give the church to himself like a bride in all her beauty. He died so that the church could be pure and without fault, with no evil or sin or any other wrong thing in it.

28. In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they love their own bodies. The man who loves his wife loves himself.

29. No one ever hates his own body, but feeds and takes care of it. And that is what Christ does for the church,

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