Ephesians 5:28

A Conservative Version

So ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Cross References

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your own wives even as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it,

Matthew 19:5

and said, For this reason a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, and the two will be in one flesh?

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless ye also, each one in particular, shall so love his own wife as himself, and the wife that she fear her husband.

Ephesians 5:31

Separate from this a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, and the two will be in one flesh.

Ephesians 5:29

For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also Christ the church,

1 Peter 3:7

Likewise the husbands living together knowledgably, as with a weaker vessel, apportioning worth to the female as also joint-heirs of the grace of life, for your prayers not to be hindered.