Ephesians 5:28
That is how husbands ought to love their wives, as they love their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Montgomery 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
29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it as Christ does the church;
Cross References
Matthew 19:5"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 shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they 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 →