Ephesians 5:28

World English Bible (2000)

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

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  • Eph 5:25 : 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
  • Eph 5:33 : 33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
  • Eph 5:31 : 31 "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."
  • Gen 2:21-24 : 21 Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man. 23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called 'woman,' because she was taken out of Man." 24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
  • Matt 19:5 : 5 and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'

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  • Eph 5:29-33
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    29For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

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

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

    32This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

    33Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

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

    22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

    23For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

    24But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

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

    26that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

    27that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, 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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    2But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

    3Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

    4The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.

    5Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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

    19Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.

  • Gen 2:23-24
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    23The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called 'woman,' because she was taken out of Man."

    24Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

  • Matt 19:5-6
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    5and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'

    6So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."

  • Mark 10:7-8
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    7For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join 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 he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

    34There is also 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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    15Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

    16Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."

  • 1 Pet 3:7-8
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    7You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

    8Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

  • 1 Pet 3:5
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    5For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

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

  • Prov 5:18
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    18Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

  • 1 Pet 3:1
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    1In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

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

  • Titus 2:4-5
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    4that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.

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

  • 1 Cor 7:10
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    10But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband

  • Matt 5:28
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    28but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

  • 1 Cor 11:11
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    11Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

  • 1 Tim 3:5
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    5(but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

  • 1 Cor 7:27
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    27Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.

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

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

  • 1 Thess 4:4
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    4that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

  • Prov 18:22
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    22Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

  • Matt 5:31
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    31"It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,'