B. Husbands: Love Your Wives 5:25-33
Eph 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;Eph 5:26
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,Eph 5:27
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.Eph 5:28
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.Eph 5:29
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:Eph 5:30
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.Eph 5:31
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.Eph 5:32
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.Eph 5:33
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.