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Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
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that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
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that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
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Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
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For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also the assembly;