Study Desk

^(bb)Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and ^(bc)gave Himself up for her,

^(bd)so that He might sanctify her, having ^(be)cleansed her by the ^(bf)washing of water with ^(bg)the word,

that He might ^(bh)present to Himself the church ^[q]in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be ^(bi)holy and blameless.

So husbands ought also to ^(bj)love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;

for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,

because we are ^(bk)members of His ^(bl)body.

^(bm) For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh .

This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.