Ephesians 5:27 ASV

²⁵  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

²⁶  that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

²⁷  that he might present the church to himself a glorious 'church', not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

²⁸  Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

²⁹  for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;