Ephesians 5:28

Catholic Public Domain Version

So, too, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Cross References

Matthew 19:5

"For this reason, a man shall separate from father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife, and these two shall become one flesh.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and handed himself over for her,

Ephesians 5:29

For no man has ever hated his own flesh, but instead he nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also does to the Church.

Ephesians 5:31

"For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh."

Ephesians 5:33

Yet truly, each and every one of you should love his wife as himself. And a wife should fear her husband.

1 Peter 3:7

Similarly, you husbands should live with them in accord with knowledge, bestowing honor on the female as the weaker vessel and as co-heirs of the life of grace, so that your prayers may not be hindered.