Bible: Ephesians 5:25-33; 6:4, 9

5:25 Husbands, love your 1  wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her 5:26 to sanctify her by cleansing her 2  with the washing of the water by the word, 5:27 so that he 3  may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless. 4  5:28 In the same way 5  husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 5:29 For no one has ever hated his own body 6  but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church, 5:30 for we are members of his body. 7  5:31 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become 8  one flesh. 9  5:32 This mystery is great – but I am actually 10  speaking with reference to Christ and the church. 5:33 Nevertheless, 11  each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, 12  and the wife must 13  respect 14  her husband.

6:4 The Nephilim 1  were on the earth in those days (and also after this) 2  when the sons of God were having sexual relations with 3  the daughters of humankind, who gave birth to their children. 4  They were the mighty heroes 5  of old, the famous men. 6 

The Judgment of the Flood

6:9 This is the account of Noah. 7 

Noah was a godly man; he was blameless 8 

among his contemporaries. 9  He 10  walked with 11  God.

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