Ephesians 5:27-29

Expanded Bible

²⁷ He did this so that he could present the church to himself ·like a bride in all her beauty [in splendor; glorious], with no ·evil or sin [^Lstain or wrinkle] or any other ·wrong thing in it [^Lsuch thing], but ·pure [holy] and ·without fault [blameless]. ²⁸ In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they love their own bodies. The man who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ [^LFor] No one ever hates his own ·body [^Tflesh], but feeds and takes care of it. And that is what Christ does for the church,