Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ...In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ...“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”