Ephesians 5:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

In the same way, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

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King 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.

Ephesians 5:28 Cross References

Matthew 19:5

and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

Ephesians 5:29

For no one ever hates his own flesh, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,

Ephesians 5:31

“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

Ephesians 5:33

Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband.

1 Peter 3:7

Husbands, in the same way, show consideration for your wives in your life together, paying honor to the woman—though the weaker vessel, they are joint heirs of the gracious gift of life—so that nothing may hinder your prayers.