Ephesians 5 first gives some life instructions to all believers and then gives some more specific life instructions for wives and husbands. First, Paul says we all should live godly lives of thanksgiving, sacrifice, and love, doing whatever we can to please the Lord. We need to be careful how we live , always acting wisely and seeking to live in accordance with the Lord's will, being filled with the Spirit, continually encouraging and submitting to one another, and giving thanks to God for everything. Next, Paul specifically addresses wives and husbands. Wives are instructed to reverence their husband, be in subjection to him, respecting the husband's headship position over the wife. "Wives should submit to their husbands in everything". Paul then instructs husbands to be united with their wives, considering them with tremendous care and love, like as their own bodies, feeding , caring, washing them through the word to encourage them towards holiness, presenting them blameless before the Lord. Husbands are to love their wives sacrificially, "just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her".