Ephesians 5:28
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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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Translate, "So ought husbands also (thus the oldest manuscripts read) to love their own (compare Note, see on Eph 5:22) wives as their own bodies." He that loveth his wife loveth himself--So there is the same love and the same union of body between Christ and the Church (Eph 5:30, Eph 5:32).
Open source ↗We had several important exhortations in the close of the foregoing chapter, and they are continued in this: particularly, I. We have here an exhortation to mutual love and charity (Eph 5:1, Eph 5:2). II. Against all manner of uncleanness, with proper arguments and remedies proposed against such sins: and some further cautions are added, and other duties recommended (v. 3-20). III. The apostle directs to the conscientious discharge of relative duties, from Eph 5:21, throughout this, and in the beginning of the next chapter.
Open source ↗5:28-29 Husbands should prize and cherish their wives, for in marriage the two have become one (see 5:31).
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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”