Ephesians 5:28

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eph 5:25 : 25 Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her
  • Eph 5:33 : 33 Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
  • Eph 5:31 : 31 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
  • Gen 2:21-24 : 21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man’s side and closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said,“This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” 24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.
  • Matt 19:5 : 5 and said,‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

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  • Eph 5:29-33
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    29For no one has ever hated his own body, but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,

    30because we are members of his body.

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

    32This mystery is great– but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

    33Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

  • Eph 5:21-27
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    21and submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

    22Exhortations to Households Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,

    23because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church(he himself being the savior of the body).

    24But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

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

    26to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word,

    27so that he may present the church to himself as glorious– not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

  • 1 Cor 7:2-5
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    2But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.

    3A husband should fulfill his marital responsibility to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband.

    4It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.

    5Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then resume your relationship, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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

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

  • Gen 2:23-24
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    23Then the man said,“This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

    24That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

  • Matt 19:5-6
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    5and said,‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

    6So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

  • Mark 10:7-8
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    7For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,

    8and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 7:33-34
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    33But a married man is concerned about the things of the world, how to please his wife,

    34and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world, how to please her husband.

  • 1 Cor 6:15-16
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    15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

    16Or do you not know that anyone who is united with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said,“The two will become one flesh.”

  • 1 Pet 3:7-8
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    7Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers.

    8Suffering for Doing Good Finally, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, affectionate, compassionate, and humble.

  • 1 Pet 3:5
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    5For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands,

  • 1 Cor 7:16
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    16For how do you know, wife, whether you will bring your husband to salvation? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will bring your wife to salvation?

  • Prov 5:18
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    18May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife you married in your youth–

  • 1 Pet 3:1
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    1Wives and Husbands In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands. Then, even if some are disobedient to the word, they will be won over without a word by the way you live,

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,

  • Titus 2:4-5
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    4In this way they will train the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5to be self-controlled, pure, fulfilling their duties at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message of God may not be discredited.

  • Eph 5:2
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    2and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

  • 1 Cor 7:10
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    10To the married I give this command– not I, but the Lord– a wife should not divorce a husband

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

  • 1 Cor 11:11
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    11In any case, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.

  • 1 Tim 3:5
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    5But if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for the church of God?

  • 1 Cor 7:27
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    27The one bound to a wife should not seek divorce. The one released from a wife should not seek marriage.

  • 1 Cor 7:14
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    14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified because of the wife, and the unbelieving wife because of her husband. Otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

  • 1 Cor 11:3
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    3But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.

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

  • 1 Thess 4:4
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    4that each of you know how to possess his own body in holiness and honor,

  • Prov 18:22
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    22The one who has found a good wife has found what goodness is, and obtained a delightful gift from the LORD.

  • Matt 5:31
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    31Divorce“It was said,‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a legal document.’