Bible verse
In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:28 · BSB
The verses around it, from Ephesians 5.
24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
26 to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
27 and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.
28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29 Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.
30 For we are members of His body.
31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
32 This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.
KJV
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
ASV
Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:
ERV
Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:
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