Ephesians 5:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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:

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  • 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?

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  • Eph 5:29-33
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    29For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;

    30Because we are parts of his body.

    31For 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.

    32This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.

    33But 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 5:21-27
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    21Letting yourselves be ruled by one another in the fear of Christ.

    22Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.

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

    24And as the church is under Christ's authority, so let wives be under the rule of their husbands in all things.

    25Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;

    26So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,

    27And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete.

  • 1 Cor 7:2-5
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    2But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

    3Let the husband give to the wife what is right; and let the wife do the same to the husband.

    4The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.

    5Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.

  • Col 3:18-19
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    18Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as is right in the Lord.

    19Husbands, have love for 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 bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.

    24For 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 19:5-6
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    5For 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?

    6So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.

  • Mark 10:7-8
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    7For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;

    8And the two will become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 7:33-34
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    33But the married man gives his attention to the things of this world, how he may give pleasure to his wife.

    34And the wife is not the same as the virgin. The virgin gives her mind to the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but the married woman takes thought for the things of the world, how she may give pleasure to her husband.

  • 1 Cor 6:15-16
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    15Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be.

    16Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.

  • 1 Pet 3:7-8
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    7And you husbands, give thought to your way of life with your wives, giving honour to the woman who is the feebler vessel, but who has an equal part in the heritage of the grace of life; so that you may not be kept from prayer.

    8Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride:

  • 1 Pet 3:5
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    5And these were the ornaments of the holy women of the past, whose hope was in God, being ruled by their husbands:

  • 1 Cor 7:16
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    16For how may you be certain, O wife, that you will not be the cause of salvation to your husband? or you, O husband, that you may not do the same for your wife?

  • Prov 5:18
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    18Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

  • 1 Pet 3:1
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    1Wives, be ruled by your husbands; so that even if some of them give no attention to the word, their hearts may be changed by the behaviour of their wives,

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29But I say this, my brothers, the time is short; and from now it will be wise for those who have wives to be as if they had them not;

  • Titus 2:4-5
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    4Training the younger women to have love for their husbands and children,

    5To be wise in mind, clean in heart, kind; working in their houses, living under the authority of their husbands; so that no evil may be said of the word of God.

  • Eph 5:2
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    2And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

  • 1 Cor 7:10
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    10But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband

  • Matt 5:28
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    28But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.

  • 1 Cor 11:11
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    11But the woman is not separate from the man, and the man is not separate from the woman in the Lord.

  • 1 Tim 3:5
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    5(For if a man has not the art of ruling his house, how will he take care of the church of God?)

  • 1 Cor 7:27
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    27If you are married to a wife, make no attempt to get free from her: if you are free from a wife, do not take a wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:14
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    14For the husband who has not faith is made holy through his Christian wife, and the wife who is not a Christian is made holy through the brother: if not, your children would be unholy, but now are they holy.

  • 1 Cor 11:3
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    3But it is important for you to keep this fact in mind, 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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    11My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.

  • 1 Thess 4:4
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    4So that every one of you may keep his body holy and in honour;

  • Prov 18:22
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    22Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.

  • Matt 5:31
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    31Again, it was said, Whoever puts away his wife has to give her a statement in writing for this purpose: