Ephesians 5:28

So, ought the husbands [also] to be loving their own wives, as their own bodies,—he that loveth his own wife, loveth himself,

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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, unto himself, the assembly, all glorious, not having spot or wrinkle or any of such things, but that she should be holy and blameless;

29No one, in fact, ever yet hated, his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it,—even as, the Christ, the assembly,

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Cross References

Matthew 19:5and said—For this cause, will a man leave his father and his mother, and be united to his wife,—and, the two, will become, one flesh;

Ephesians 5:31For this cause, will a man leave his father and his mother, and will cleave unto his wife, and, they two, shall 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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