28. Even so husbands should love their wives as [being in a sense] their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
29. For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and carefully protects and cherishes it, as Christ does the church,
30. Because we are members (parts) of His body.
31. For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. [Gen. 2:24.]
32. This mystery is very great, but I speak concerning [the relation of] Christ and the church.
33. However, let each man of you [without exception] love his wife as [being in a sense] his very own self; and let the wife see that she respects and reverences her husband [that she notices him, regards him, honors him, prefers him, venerates, and esteems him; and that she defers to him, praises him, and loves and admires him exceedingly]. [I Pet. 3:2.]