25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
26that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
27that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
29For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also the assembly;
30because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
31"For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."
