Hosea 2:14-23

New International Version

¹⁴“Therefore I am now going to allure her;
    I will lead her into the wilderness^(A)
    and speak tenderly to her.
¹⁵There I will give her back her vineyards,
    and will make the Valley of Achor^[a]^(B) a door of hope.
There she will respond^[b]^(C) as in the days of her youth,^(D)
    as in the day she came up out of Egypt.^(E)

¹⁶“In that day,” declares the Lord,
    “you will call me ‘my husband’;^(F)
    you will no longer call me ‘my master.^[c]’
¹⁷I will remove the names of the Baals from her lips;^(G)
    no longer will their names be invoked.^(H)
¹⁸In that day I will make a covenant for them
    with the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky
    and the creatures that move along the ground.^(I)
Bow and sword and battle
    I will abolish^(J) from the land,
    so that all may lie down in safety.^(K)
¹⁹I will betroth^(L) you to me forever;
    I will betroth you in^[d] righteousness and justice,^(M)
    in^[e] love and compassion.^(N)
²⁰I will betroth you in^[f] faithfulness,
    and you will acknowledge^(O) the Lord.^(P)

²¹“In that day I will respond,”
    declares the Lord—
“I will respond^(Q) to the skies,
    and they will respond to the earth;
²²and the earth will respond to the grain,
    the new wine and the olive oil,^(R)
    and they will respond to Jezreel.^[g]^(S)
²³I will plant^(T) her for myself in the land;
    I will show my love to the one I called ‘Not my loved one.^[h]^(U)’
I will say to those called ‘Not my people,^[i]’ ‘You are my people’;^(V)
    and they will say, ‘You are my God.^(W)’”

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Footnotes

Hosea 2:15 Achor means trouble.
Hosea 2:15 Or sing
Hosea 2:16 Hebrew baal
Hosea 2:19 Or with
Hosea 2:19 Or with
Hosea 2:20 Or with
Hosea 2:22 Jezreel means God plants.
Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-Ruhamah (see 1:6)
Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-Ammi (see 1:9)

Ephesians 5:22-32

New International Version

²²Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands^(A) as you do to the Lord.^(B) ²³For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church,^(C) his body, of which he is the Savior. ²⁴Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands^(D) in everything.

²⁵Husbands, love your wives,^(E) just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her^(F) ²⁶to make her holy,^(G) cleansing^[a] her by the washing^(H) with water through the word, ²⁷and to present her to himself^(I) as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.^(J) ²⁸In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives^(K) as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— ³⁰for we are members of his body.^(L) ³¹“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”^[b]^(M) ³²This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.