for we are members of his body.

to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ,

From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every supporting ligament. As each one does its part, the body grows in love.

Now the church is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed.

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you too were called to the one hope of your calling,

because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church – he himself being the savior of the body.

In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.