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


In Context

25 Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,

26 in order that he might sanctify it, purifying it by the washing of water by the word,

27 that he might present the assembly to himself glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it might be holy and blameless.

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

29 For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly:

30 for we are members of his body; we are 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 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;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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