4 Bible Verses about Cherishing

Instead we were little children among you; we were like a mother nursing her children.

This is the way married men ought to love their wives, as they do their own bodies. The married man who loves his wife is really loving himself, for no one ever hates his own physical person, but he feeds and fosters it, just as Christ does the church;

But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the people to be His very own, to proclaim the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.

For I feel a divine jealousy for you, as I betrothed you to Christ, to present you as a pure bride to her one husband.