²⁸ So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

³³ Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

²¹ And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

²² And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

²³ And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

²⁴ Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

⁵ And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

³¹ For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.