Ephesians 5:28

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his 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 for it;
  • Eph 5:33 : 33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
  • Eph 5:31 : 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
  • Gen 2:21-24 : 21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 23 And Adam 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 father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

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

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

    31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

    32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

    33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

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

    22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

    23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

    24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

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

    26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

    27 That he might present it 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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    2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

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

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

    5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

  • Col 3:18-19
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    18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

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

  • Gen 2:23-24
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    23 And Adam 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 19:5-6
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    5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

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

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

    8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

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

    34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

  • 1 Cor 6:15-16
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    15 Know ye 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.

    16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

  • 1 Pet 3:7-8
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    7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

    8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

  • 1 Pet 3:5
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    5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

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

  • Prov 5:18
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    18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

  • 1 Pet 3:1
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    1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

  • Titus 2:4-5
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    4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

  • Eph 5:2
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    2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

  • 1 Cor 7:10
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    10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

  • Matt 5:28
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    28 But I say unto you, That whosoever 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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    11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

  • 1 Tim 3:5
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    5 (For if a man know 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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    27 Art 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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    14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

  • 1 Cor 11:3
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    3 But 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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    11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

  • 1 Thess 4:4
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    4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

  • Prov 18:22
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    22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

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

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