27. That He might present the church to Himself in glorious splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such things [that she might be holy and faultless].
28. Even so husbands should love their wives as [being in a sense] their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
29. For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and carefully protects and cherishes it, as Christ does the church,
30. Because we are members (parts) of His body.
31. For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. [Gen. 2:24.]