25. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
26. that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
27. that he might present the church to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28. Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself: