26. in order that he might sanctify it, purifying it by the washing of water by the word,
27. that he might present the assembly to himself glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it might be holy and blameless.
28. So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself.
29. For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly: