Ephesians 5:28

American Standard Version (1901)

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

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  • Eph 5:25 : 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
  • Eph 5:33 : 33 Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.
  • Eph 5:31 : 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.
  • Gen 2:21-24 : 21 And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof: 22 and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 23 And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
  • Matt 19:5 : 5 and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?

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  • Eph 5:29-33
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    29for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

    30because we are members of his body.

    31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

    32This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.

    33Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.

  • Eph 5:21-27
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    21subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

    22Wives, [be in subjection] unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

    23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, [being] himself the saviour of the body.

    24But as the church is subject to Christ, so [let] the wives also [be] to their husbands in everything.

    25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

    26that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

    27that he might present the church to himself a glorious [church], not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

  • 1 Cor 7:2-5
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    2But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

    3Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

    4The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.

    5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

  • Col 3:18-19
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    18Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

    19Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

  • Gen 2:23-24
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    23And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

    24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

  • Matt 19:5-6
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    5and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?

    6So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

  • Mark 10:7-8
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    7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife;

    8and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 7:33-34
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    33but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

    34and is divided. [So] also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

  • 1 Cor 6:15-16
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    15Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.

    16Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

  • 1 Pet 3:7-8
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    7Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with [your wives] according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

    8Finally, [be] ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

  • 1 Pet 3:5
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    5For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

  • 1 Cor 7:16
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    16For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O husband, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

  • Prov 5:18
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    18Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

  • 1 Pet 3:1
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    1In like manner, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;

  • Titus 2:4-5
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    4that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5[ to be] sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

  • Eph 5:2
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    2and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.

  • 1 Cor 7:10
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    10But unto the married I give charge, [yea] not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

  • Matt 5:28
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    28but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

  • 1 Cor 11:11
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    11Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, in the Lord.

  • 1 Tim 3:5
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    5(but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

  • 1 Cor 7:27
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    27Art thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:14
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    14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

  • 1 Cor 11:3
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    3But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

  • 1 John 4:11
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    11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

  • 1 Thess 4:4
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    4that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

  • Prov 18:22
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    22Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

  • Matt 5:31
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    31It was said also, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: