Paul takes his teaching about unity in the body into the household, calling husbands who have a measure of delegated authority from Christ as head of household to use that authority to love and serve their wives and Jesus did the church. He also calls wives to honor Christ by submitting to their husbands as to himself. The call for both is to submit to Christ in their respective temporal roles. In doing so, marriage accurately reflects its true fulfillment--the union of Christ with his church.