Ephesians 5:28

Geneva Bible (1560)

So ought men to loue their wiues, as their owne bodies: he that loueth his wife, loueth him selfe.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eph 5:25 : 25 Husbands, loue your wiues, euen as Christ loued the Church, & gaue himselfe for it,
  • Eph 5:33 : 33 Therefore euery one of you, doe ye so: let euery one loue his wife, euen as himselfe, and let the wife see that shee feare her husband.
  • Eph 5:31 : 31 For this cause shal a man leaue father and mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they twaine shalbe one flesh.
  • Gen 2:21-24 : 21 Therefore the Lord God caused an heauie sleepe to fall vpon the man, and he slept: and he tooke one of his ribbes, & closed vp the flesh in steade thereof. 22 And the ribbe which the Lorde God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shalbe called woman, because she was taken out of man. 24 Therefore shall man leaue his father and his mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
  • Matt 19:5 : 5 And sayd, For this cause, shal a man leaue father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife, and they which were two shalbe one flesh.

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  • Eph 5:29-33
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    29For no man euer yet hated his owne flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, euen as the Lord doeth the Church.

    30For we are members of his bodie, of his flesh, and of his bones.

    31For this cause shal a man leaue father and mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they twaine shalbe one flesh.

    32This is a great secrete, but I speake concerning Christ, and concerning the Church.

    33Therefore euery one of you, doe ye so: let euery one loue his wife, euen as himselfe, and let the wife see that shee feare her husband.

  • Eph 5:21-27
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    21Submitting your selues one to another in the feare of God.

    22Wiues, submit your selues vnto your husbands, as vnto the Lord.

    23For the husband is the wiues head, euen as Christ is the head of the Church, and the same is the sauiour of his body.

    24Therfore as the Church is in subiection to Christ, euen so let the wiues be to their husbads in euery thing.

    25Husbands, loue your wiues, euen as Christ loued the Church, & gaue himselfe for it,

    26That hee might sanctifie it, and clense it by the washing of water through the worde,

    27That hee might make it vnto him selfe a glorious Church, not hauing spot or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it shoulde bee holy and without blame.

  • 1 Cor 7:2-5
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    2Neuertheles, to auoide fornication, let euery man haue his wife, and let euery woman haue her owne husband.

    3Let the husbande giue vnto the wife due beneuolence, and likewise also the wife vnto the husband.

    4The wife hath not the power of her owne bodie, but ye husband: & likewise also the husband hath not ye power of his own body, but the wife.

    5Defraude not one another, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may giue your selues to fasting and praier, and againe come together that Satan tempt you not for your incontinecie.

  • Col 3:18-19
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    18Wiues, submit your selues vnto your husbands, as it is comely in the Lord.

    19Husbands, loue your wiues, and be not bitter vnto them.

  • Gen 2:23-24
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    23Then the man said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shalbe called woman, because she was taken out of man.

    24Therefore shall man leaue his father and his mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.

  • Matt 19:5-6
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    5And sayd, For this cause, shal a man leaue father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife, and they which were two shalbe one flesh.

    6Wherefore they are no more twaine, but one flesh. Let not man therefore put asunder that, which God hath coupled together.

  • Mark 10:7-8
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    7For this cause shall man leaue his father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife.

    8And they twaine shalbe one flesh: so that they are no more twaine, but one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 7:33-34
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    33But hee that is maried, careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

    34There is difference also betweene a virgine and a wife: the vnmaried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in spirite: but shee that is maried, careth for the things of the worlde, howe shee may please her husband.

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

    16Doe ye not knowe, that he which coupleth himselfe with an harlot, is one body? for two, sayeth he, shalbe one flesh.

  • 1 Pet 3:7-8
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    7Likewise ye husbands, dwel with them as men of knowledge, giuing honour vnto the woman, as vnto the weaker vessell, euen as they which are heires together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not interrupted.

    8Finally, be ye all of one minde: one suffer with another: loue as brethren: bee pitifull: bee courteous,

  • 1 Pet 3:5
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    5For euen after this maner in time past did the holy women, which trusted in God, tire them selues, and were subiect to their husbands.

  • 1 Cor 7:16
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    16For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt saue thine husband? Or what knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt saue thy wife?

  • Prov 5:18
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    18Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.

  • 1 Pet 3:1
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    1Likewise let the wiues bee subiect to their husbandes, that euen they which obey not the worde, may without the worde be wonne by the conuersation of the wiues,

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29And this I say, brethren, because the time is short, hereafter that both they which haue wiues, be as though they had none:

  • Titus 2:4-5
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    4That they may instruct the yong women to be sober minded, that they loue their husbads, that they loue their children,

    5That they be temperate, chaste, keeping at home, good & subiect vnto their husbands, that the word of God be not euill spoken of.

  • Eph 5:2
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    2And walke in loue, euen as Christ hath loued vs, and hath giuen himselfe for vs, to be an offering and a sacrifice of a sweete smelling sauour to God.

  • 1 Cor 7:10
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    10And vnto ye maried I comand, not I, but ye Lord, Let not ye wife depart from her husband.

  • Matt 5:28
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    28But I say vnto you, that whosoeuer looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adulterie with her already in his heart.

  • 1 Cor 11:11
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    11Neuertheles, neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man in the Lord.

  • 1 Tim 3:5
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    5For if any cannot rule his owne house, how shall he care for the Church of God?

  • 1 Cor 7:27
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    27Art thou bounde vnto a wife? Seeke not to be loosed: art thou loosed from a wife? Seeke not a wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:14
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    14For the vnbeleeuing husband is sanctified to the wife, and the vnbeleeuing wife is sanctified to the husbande, els were your children vncleane: but nowe are they holie.

  • 1 Cor 11:3
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    3But I wil that ye know, that Christ is the head of euery man: and the man is the womans head: and God is Christs head.

  • 1 John 4:11
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    11Beloued, if God so loued vs, we ought also to loue one another.

  • 1 Thess 4:4
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    4That euery one of you should know, how to possesse his vessell in holines and honour,

  • Prov 18:22
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    22He that findeth a wife, findeth a good thing, and receiueth fauour of the Lord.

  • Matt 5:31
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    31It hath bene sayd also, Whosoeuer shall put away his wife, let him giue her a bill of diuorcement.