²⁸ In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives^(A) as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives,^(A) just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her^(B)

⁵ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’^[a]?^(A)

²¹ So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep;^(A) and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs^[a] and then closed up the place with flesh. ²² Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib^[b](B) he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

²³ The man said,

²⁴ That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united^(F) to his wife, and they become one flesh.^(G)

³³ However, each one of you also must love his wife^(A) as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

³¹ “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”^[a](A)