Ephesians 5:28 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

So husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself.(GOD'S WORD®)

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:

BBE:

Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

DBY:

So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself.

ERV:

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

WEY:

So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself.

WBS:

So ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself.

WEB:

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

YLT:

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

Ephesians 5:28 Cross References

XREF:

Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

Ephesians 5:33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.

1 Peter 3:7 You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

5:28 {14} So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
(14) Another argument: every man loves himself, even by nature: therefore he strives against nature that does not love his wife. He proves the conclusion, first by the mystical knitting of Christ and the Church together, and then by the ordinance of God, who says that man and wife are as one, that is, not to be divided.

PNT:

5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. The church is the Bride of the Lamb (Re 21:9), but it is also Christ's body (1Co 10:16 12:27 Eph 4:12).
He that loveth his wife loveth himself. As he loved his body, so every husband ought to love her who by the mystery of the marriage tie has become bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh (Ge 2:23).

WES:

5:28 As their own bodies - That is, as themselves. He that loveth his wife loveth himself - Which is not a sin, but an indisputable duty.

MHC:

5:22-33 The duty of wives is, submission to their husbands in the Lord, which includes honouring and obeying them, from a principle of love to them. The duty of husbands is to love their wives. The love of Christ to the church is an example, which is sincere, pure, and constant, notwithstanding her failures. Christ gave himself for the church, that he might sanctify it in this world, and glorify it in the next, that he might bestow on all his members a principle of holiness, and deliver them from the guilt, the pollution, and the dominion of sin, by those influences of the Holy Spirit, of which baptismal water was the outward sign. The church and believers will not be without spot or wrinkle till they come to glory. But those only who are sanctified now, shall be glorified hereafter. The words of Adam, mentioned by the apostle, are spoken literally of marriage; but they have also a hidden sense in them, relating to the union between Christ and his church. It was a kind of type, as having resemblance. There will be failures and defects on both sides, in the present state of human nature, yet this does not alter the relation. All the duties of marriage are included in unity and love. And while we adore and rejoice in the condescending love of Christ, let husbands and wives learn hence their duties to each other. Thus the worst evils would be prevented, and many painful effects would be avoided.

CONC:

Bodies Husbands Love Loves Loveth Loving Married Ought Themselves Wife Wives

Bodies Husbands Love Loving Married Ought Themselves Way Wife Wives

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