Because we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
So we being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.
Which is his body, and the fulness of him who is filled all in all.
And not holding the head, from which the whole body, by joints and bands, being supplied with nourishment and compacted, groweth unto the increase of God.
For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church: