and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Ephesians 5:28 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Even so husbands should love their wives as [being in a sense] their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. American Standard Version (1901) Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself: Common English Bible That’s how husbands ought to love their wives—in the same way as they do their own bodies. Anyone who loves his wife loves himself. Catholic Public Domain Version So, too, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself. |
and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.