Ephesians 5:25-33 - Husbands And Wives

25 You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her, 26 to consecrate her, after cleansing her with the bath in water through her confession of him, 27 in order to bring the church to himself in all her beauty, without a flaw or a wrinkle or anything of the kind, but to be consecrated and faultless. 28 That is the way husbands ought to love their wives??s if they were their own bodies; a man who loves his wife is really loving himself, 29 for no one ever hates his own person, but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ does with the church, 30 for we are parts of his body.

31 Therefore a man must leave his father and mother and attach himself to his wife, and they must become one.

32 This is a great secret, but I understand it of Christ and the church. 33 But each one of you must love his wife just as he loves himself, and the wife, too, must respect her husband.