23 For cthe husband is the head of the wife even as dChrist is the head of the church, his body, and is ehimself its Savior.
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1 Corinthians 11:3
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
Ephesians 1:22–23
And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
1 Corinthians 6:13
“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
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