25 Husbands, love your wives,  * 5:25 Col 3:19; 1Pt 3:7 just as Christ loved  * 5:25 Jn 3:16; 1Co 13:1; 2Th 2:13 the church and gave himself  * 5:25 Ti 2:14 for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing  * 5:26 Or having cleansed her with the washing of water by the word. 27 He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.  * 5:27 Jd 2428 In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,