Ephesians 5:28

KJV1611 – Modern English

So men 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 also loved the church and gave himself for it;
  • Eph 5:33 : 33 Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
  • Eph 5:31 : 31 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become 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 in its place. 22 And with the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, He made a woman and brought her to 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 mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
  • Matt 19:5 : 5 And said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eph 5:29-33
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    29For no one ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church:

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

    31For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

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

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

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

    22Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

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

    24Therefore just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

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

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

    27That 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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    2Nevertheless, to avoid sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

    3Let the husband give to the wife her due affection, and likewise also the wife to the husband.

    4The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

    5Do not deprive one another, except with consent for a time, to give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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

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

  • Gen 2:23-24
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    23And 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.

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

  • Matt 19:5-6
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    5And said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?

    6Therefore they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

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

    8And the two shall become one flesh: so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 7:33-34
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    33But he who is married cares about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

    34There is a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

  • 1 Cor 6:15-16
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    15Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.

    16What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For two, says He, shall be one flesh.

  • 1 Pet 3:7-8
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    7In the same way, you husbands, live with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

    8Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous;

  • 1 Pet 3:5
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    5For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands:

  • 1 Cor 7:16
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    16For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?

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

  • 1 Pet 3:1
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    1In the same way, you wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that if any do not obey the word, they may also be won without a word by the conduct of their wives;

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29But this I say, brethren, the time is short; so that from now on, even those who have wives should be as though they had none,

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

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

  • Eph 5:2
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    2And walk in love, as Christ also loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

  • 1 Cor 7:10
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    10And to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord, that a wife should not leave her husband:

  • Matt 5:28
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    28But I say to you, that whoever looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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

  • 1 Tim 3:5
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    5For if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?

  • 1 Cor 7:27
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    27Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:14
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    14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

  • 1 Cor 11:3
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    3But I want you to 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 every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor;

  • Prov 18:22
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    22Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.

  • Matt 5:31
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    31Furthermore it has been said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce:'