Verse 28

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

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  • Eph 5:25 : 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
  • Eph 5:33 : 33 However, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
  • Eph 5:31 : 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.
  • Gen 2:21-24 : 21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and while he slept, He took one of his ribs and closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the LORD God formed the rib He had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 The man said, 'This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called "woman," for she was taken out of man.' 24 For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
  • Matt 19:5 : 5 And he said, "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."