28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself.


In Context

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

26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

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

29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord the church:

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

Ephesians 5:28 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:28In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:28So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:28Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:28So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:28Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:28So ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:28Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:28so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife — himself he doth love;