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

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

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

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

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

For to you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

For it is God who worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.

Because for the work of Christ he was nigh to death, not regarding his life, to supply the want of your service towards me.

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his death;

Who will change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like to his glorious body, according to the working by which he is able even to subdue all things to himself.

But my God will supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it], do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, to all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness;

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated [us] into the kingdom of his beloved Son:

In whom we have redemption through his blood, [even] the forgiveness of sins:

And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things to himself; by him, [I say], whether [they are] things on earth, or things in heaven.

In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in his sight:

Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church: