In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?
So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
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