Ephesians 5:22–32

²²Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord, ²³for a husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly. He is Saviour of the body. ²⁴But even as the assembly is subjected to the Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything. ²⁵Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it, ²⁶in order that he might sanctify it, purifying it by the washing of water by the word, ²⁷that he might present the assembly to himself glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it might be holy and blameless. ²⁸So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself. ²⁹For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly: ³⁰for we are members of his body; we are of his flesh, and of his bones. ³¹Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. ³²This mystery is great, but I speak as to Christ, and as to the assembly.