Ephesians 5:25-27 Part 2 of 2

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.  

cleansing her by washing with water through the word 
Acts 22:16  " 'And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.' " 
John 3:5-6  Jesus answered, "Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit."
John 15:3  "You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you." 
Titus 3:4-7  But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life. 
Hebrews 10:22  ... let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
James 1:18  He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created. 
1 Peter 1:23  For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 
1 Peter 3:21  ... and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also--not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 

as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless 
Ephesians 1:4  For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.

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