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


In Context

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

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

29 After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church--

30 for we are members of his body.

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 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;

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.