25 Husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the congregation and gave himself up for it.

26 This is so he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word.

27 So he will be able to present the congregation to himself as a glorious congregation, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing. It should be holy and without blemish.

28 In this way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his own wife loves himself.

29 No man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also does the congregation.

30 And we are members of his body!