28. Thus also husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. The one who loves his own wife loves himself.
29. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also Christ does the church,
30. because we are members of his body.
31. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
32. (This mystery is great, but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.)