6 Thus they are no longer two, but one'! What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.«

4 Love is patient and kind. Love knows neither envy nor jealousy. Love is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited.5 She does not behave unbecomingly, nor seek to aggrandize herself, nor blaze out in passionate anger, nor brood over wrongs.6 She finds no pleasure in injustice done to others, but joyfully sides with the truth.7 She knows how to be silent. She is full of trust, full of hope, full of patient endurance.

28 So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself.29 For never yet has a man hated his own body. On the contrary he feeds and cherishes it, just as Christ feeds and cherishes the Church;

33 Yet I insist that among you also, each man is to love his own wife as much as he loves himself, and let a married woman see to it that she treats her husband with respect.

14 And over all these put on love, which is the perfect bond of union;