27. in order to present the church to himself in all its beauty — pure and faultless, without spot or wrinkle or any other imperfection.
28. Men ought to love their wives just as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself.
29. (People never hate their own bodies. Instead, they feed them and take care of them, just as Christ does the church;
30. for we are members of his body.)