25. Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.
26. He did this to dedicate the church to God by his word, after making it clean by washing it in water,
27. in order to present the church to himself in all its beauty — pure and faultless, without spot or wrinkle or any other imperfection.
28. Men ought to love their wives just as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself.
29. (People never hate their own bodies. Instead, they feed them and take care of them, just as Christ does the church;
30. for we are members of his body.)