Bible verse
to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
Ephesians 5:26 · BSB
The verses around it, from Ephesians 5.
22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.
24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
26 to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
27 and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.
28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29 Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.
30 For we are members of His body.
KJV
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
ASV
that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
ERV
that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
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