Ephesians 5:28

That is how husbands ought to love their wives – as if they were their own bodies. A man who loves his wife is really loving himself;

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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

27so that he might himself bring the church, in all her beauty, into his own presence, with no spot or wrinkle or blemish of any kind, but that she might be holy and faultless.

29for no one ever yet hated his own body. But everyone feeds his body and cares for it, just as the Christ for the church;

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Cross References

Matthew 19:5and said – ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother, and be united to his wife, and the man and his wife will become one’?

Ephesians 5:31For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and be united to his wife; and the man and his wife will become one.

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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