25 The husbands: love your own wives, as the Christ also loved the Assembly, and gave Himself for it, 26 that He might sanctify it, having cleansed [it] with the bathing of the water in the saying, 27 that He might present the Assembly to Himself in glory, having no spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished; 28 so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife—he loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and nurtures it, as also the LORD—the Assembly,