Ephesians 5:27-29

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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.

²⁸ So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself.

²⁹ For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church: