Everyday as husbands we are to seek to keep our wives in Holiness, Virtue, Righteousness and Purity. Love always seeks to purify. Therefore Husbands, to love your own wives as Christ loves the church is to lift her up, draw her near to God, promote virtue in her life and encourage her to be Christ-like. Love her so she may be pure and undefiled, being the best woman she can be by the Grace of God. Which brings us to the third aspect of the love of Christ for the church.
Husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies.
To nourish and cherish her just as Christ does the Church. Christ in His love for the church equips her with everything she needs to grow to maturity. Jesus provides all that we need for spiritual growth, individually and as a body. Through the reading and preaching of the Word, the and ministries of the church. He gives us His grace for each day.