Ephesians 5:33

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

However, each of you men individually should also love his own wife the way he loves himself. And the wife should respect her husband.

Cross References

Ephesians 5:22

Wives, you should submit to your own husbands, as you would to the Lord.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, you should love your wives just as Christ also loved the church, and gave up His life for her,

Ephesians 5:32

The secret [truth] of this is great, but I am talking about Christ and the church.

Colossians 3:19

You husbands should love your wives and not be harsh toward them.

Hebrews 12:9

Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us and we respected them [for it]; should we not much rather submit to the Father of our spirits [i.e., God], so we can live [spiritually]?