Ephesians 5:28

So ought men to love their wyves as their awne bodyes. He that loveth his wyfe loveth him sylfe.

Tyndale 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

27to make it vnto him selfe a glorious congregacion with oute spot or wrynckle or eny soche thinge: but that it shuld be holy and with out blame.

29For no man ever yet hated his awne flesshe: but norissheth and cherisseth it even as the lorde doth the congregacion.

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Cross References

Matthew 19:5and sayde: for this thinge shall a man leve father and mother and cleve vnto his wyfe and they twayne shalbe one flesshe.

Ephesians 5:31For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cotinue with his wyfe and two shalbe made one flesshe.

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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