Verse 33

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

Referenced Verses

• Eph 5:25 : 25 Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her
• Esth 1:20 : 20 And let the king’s decision which he will enact be disseminated throughout all his kingdom, vast though it is. Then all the women will give honor to their husbands, from the most prominent to the lowly.”
• Col 3:19 : 19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.
• Heb 12:9 : 9 Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?
• 1 Pet 3:2-7 : 2 when they see your pure and reverent conduct. 3 Let your beauty not be external– the braiding of hair and wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes– 4 but the inner person of the heart, the lasting beauty of a gentle and tranquil spirit, which is precious in God’s sight. 5 For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands, 6 like Sarah who obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You become her children when you do what is good and have no fear in doing so. 7 Husbands, 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.
• Eph 5:22 : 22 Exhortations to Households Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,
• Eph 5:28-29 : 28 In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one has ever hated his own body, but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,
• 1 Kgs 1:31 : 31 Bathsheba bowed down to the king with her face to the floor and said,“May my master, King David, live forever!”