Marriage should be as it is written:
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the
church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with
water through the word and to present her to himself as a radiant
church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
In this same
way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the
church—for we are members of his body.
"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the
church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Ephesians 5: 25-33