He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ for Himself, according to His favor and will,

He made of no effect the law consisting of commands and expressed in regulations, so that He might create in Himself one new man from the two, resulting in peace.

built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her

He did this to present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.

In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.