^{25 Ref} Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

^{26 Ref} that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

^{27 Ref} that he might present the church to himself a glorious `church', not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

^{28 Ref} Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

^{29 Ref} for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

^{30 Ref} because we are members of his body.