Ephesians 5:28
Good News Translation
Men ought to love their wives just as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself. (

New Revised Standard Version
In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Contemporary English Version
In the same way, a husband should love his wife as much as he loves himself. A husband who loves his wife shows he loves himself.

New American Bible
So [also] husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

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Ephesians 5:31,33 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother: and shall cleave to his wife. And they shall be two in one flesh. . . .

Genesis 2:21-24 Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it. . . .

Matthew 19:5 For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh.

Context
Wives and Husbands
27That he might present it to himself, a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 29For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church:…
Cross References
Genesis 2:23
And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.

Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and delivered himself up for it:

Ephesians 5:29
For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church:

Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular love for his wife as himself: And let the wife fear her husband.

1 Peter 3:7
Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.

Ephesians 5:27
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