Ephesians 5:28

So it becometh husbands to love their wives, as their own bodies. For he who his wife loveth, himself he loveth.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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

27and that he might constitute her a church unto himself, being glorified, and not having blemish or wrinkle or any thing like these; but to be holy and spotless.

29For no man ever hated his own body, but nourisheth it, and taketh care of it; so also the Meshiha (taketh care) of the church.

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Cross References

Matthew 19:5And he said, On this account a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Ephesians 5:31Because of this a man leaveth his father and his mother, and cleaveth unto his wife, and they two become 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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