Wives and Husbands
Eph 5:22 Wives to your own husbands,N7 as to the Lord.
Eph 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the congregation,N8 he himself being the Savior of the body.
Eph 5:24 But as the congregationN9 is subject to Christ, so also the wives should be to their husbands in everything.
Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the congregationN10 and gave himself up for her,
Eph 5:26 so that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
Eph 5:27 that he might present the congregationN11 to himself in splendor, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she might be holy and blameless.
Eph 5:28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself;
Eph 5:29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the congregation,N12
Eph 5:30 because we are members of his body.N13
Eph 5:31 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
Eph 5:32 This mysteryN14 is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the congregation.N15
Eph 5:33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she fearsN16 her husband.
No “blurring of genders here”
And here…
The New Heaven and the New Earth
Rev 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
Rev 21:2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a brideN1 adorned for her husband.
Rev 21:3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne,N2 saying, “Look, the tabernacle of God is among men, and he will dwellN3 among them, and they shall be his people,N4 and God himself will be among them,N5
Rev 21:4 and he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
Rev 21:5 And the One seated on the throne said, “Look! I am making all things new.” And he said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.”
Rev 21:6 And he said to me, “They have come to pass! I am the Alpha and the Omega,N6 the beginning and the end. To the one thirsting I will give from the spring of the water of life without cost.
Rev 21:7 The one who conquers will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be my son.
Rev 21:8 But as for the cowards and unbelievers, and the detestable, as for murderers, and the sexually immoralN7 persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
The New Jerusalem
Rev 21:9 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
Rev 21:10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,
Rev 21:11 having the glory of God, her radiance was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.
Rev 21:12 It had a great and high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names were inscribed on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel.
Rev 21:13 on the east, three gates, and on the north, three gates, and on the south, three gates, and on the west, three gates.
Rev 21:14 And the wall of the city has twelve foundation stones, and on them are twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
Rev 21:15 And the one who was speaking with me was holding a golden reed as a measure in order to measure the city and its gates and its wall.
Rev 21:16 And the city is laid out as a square, and its length is as great as its width. And he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand stadia;N8 its length and width and height are equal.
Rev 21:17 And he also measured its wall, a hundred and forty and four cubits,N9 according to the measure of man, that is, of an angel.
Rev 21:18 And the wall was made of jasper, and the city was pure gold, like clear glass.
Rev 21:19 The foundation stones of the city wall were adorned with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation stone was jasper, the second, sapphire, the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald,
Rev 21:20 the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.
Rev 21:21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the gates was a single pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.
Rev 21:22 I saw no temple in it, because the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
Rev 21:23 And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
Rev 21:24 And the nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.
Rev 21:25 And its gates will never be closed by day, for there will be no night there.
Rev 21:26 And they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it.
Rev 21:27 But anything unclean and anyone who does what is detestable or false will never enter into it; only those written in the book of life of the Lamb.
J.