Ephesians 5:28
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
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- Matthew 19:5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
- Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
- Genesis 2:21–23 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.