Ephesians 5:28

So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself.

Darby Translation

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

27that *he* might present the assembly to himself glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it might be holy and blameless.

29For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly:

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Cross References

Matthew 19:5and said, On account of this a man shall leave father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?

Ephesians 5:31Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be united 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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