Ephesians 5:25-29
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
Ephesians 5:26
so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
Ephesians 5:27
that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.
Ephesians 5:28
So husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;
Ephesians 5:29
for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,