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Ephesians 5:24-26
New Catholic Bible
Ephesians 5:24-26
New Catholic Bible
24 Just as the Church is subject to Christ, so also wives must be subject to their husbands in everything.
25 Love One Another in Christ. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her 26 in order to sanctify her by cleansing her with water and the word,[a]
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- Ephesians 5:26 Cleansing her with water and the word: a reference to Baptism (pouring of water and sacramental formula). Perhaps Paul had in mind the Oriental practice in the purification of a wife.
