Verse 28

Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

Referenced Verses

• Eph 5:25 : 25 Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;
• Eph 5:33 : 33 But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.
• Eph 5:31 : 31 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
• Gen 2:21-24 : 21 And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place: 22 And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took her to the man. 23 And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man. 24 For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.
• Matt 19:5 : 5 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?