[DailyReading] Washed by the Word

[Daily Bible Readings]

Lesson: The Fullness of the Word
Reading: Washed by the Word  2012-04-19
Reference: Eph. 5:24-29 

Eph 5:24: Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Eph 5:25: Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Eph 5:26: That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Eph 5:27: That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Eph 5:28: So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Eph 5:29: For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
(KJV)