Ephesians 5:28
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
KJV
οὕτως ὀφείλουσιν οἱ ἄνδρες ἀγαπᾶν τὰς ἑαυτῶν γυναῖκας ὡς τὰ ἑαυτῶν σώματα. ὁ ἀγαπῶν τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γυναῖκα ἑαυτὸν ἀγαπᾷ,
Greek NT
Ita et viri debent diligere uxores suas ut corpora sua. Qui suam uxorem diligit, seipsum diligit.
Vulgate
Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:
ASV
So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γυνή
gune
noun · 219×
οὕτω
outo
adverb · 208×
σῶμα
soma
noun · 141×
ἀγαπάω
agapao
verb · 143×
ἀνήρ
aner
noun · 216×
ἑαυτοῦ
eautou
reflexive_pronoun · 316×
ὀφείλω
opheilo
verb · 35×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὡς
os
adverb · 502×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
trivial
SBLGNT: καὶ | WH/Treg/NIV: καὶ
- καὶ — SBLGNT
- καὶ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
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Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Cross-references
- 1Cor 7:2 — Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
- Col 3:19 — Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
- Deut 24:5 — When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
- Eccl 3:8 — A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
- Eph 5:25 — Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
- Eph 5:25 — Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
- Eph 5:31 — For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
- Eph 5:33 — Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
- Eph 5:33 — Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
- Gen 2:21 — And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
- Gen 2:23 — And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
- Gen 2:24 — Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
- Mark 10:8 — And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
- Matt 19:5 — And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
- Matt 19:6 — Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.