Ephesians 5:28

So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself;

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

In Context

27in order that he might present it to himself a glorious church, having neither stain, nor wrinkle, nor any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

29for no one ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Christ the church:

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Cross References

Matthew 19:5and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?

Ephesians 5:31For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.

Matthew Henry on Ephesians 5:22-33

Duties of Husbands and Wives. ( a. d. 61.) 21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. 22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might… Read the whole commentary →

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