Ephesians 5:25,28
Ephesians 5:25-28 The Message (MSG)
Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church—a love marked by giving, not getting. Christ’s love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her, dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness. And that is how husbands ought to love their wives. They’re really doing themselves a favor—since they’re already “one” in marriage.
Ephesians 5:25-28 The Message (MSG)
Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church—a love marked by giving, not getting. Christ’s love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her, dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness. And that is how husbands ought to love their wives. They’re really doing themselves a favor—since they’re already “one” in marriage.
Ephesians 5:25 King James Version (KJV)
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it
Ephesians 5:28 King James Version (KJV)
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Ephesians 5:25 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her
Ephesians 5:28 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself
Ephesians 5:25 New Century Version (NCV)
Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it
Ephesians 5:28 New Century Version (NCV)
In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they love their own bodies. The man who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:25 American Standard Version (ASV)
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it
Ephesians 5:28 American Standard Version (ASV)
Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself
Ephesians 5:25 New International Version (NIV)
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
Ephesians 5:28 New International Version (NIV)
In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:25 New King James Version (NKJV)
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her
Ephesians 5:28 New King James Version (NKJV)
So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:25 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Husbands, love your wives [seek the highest good for her and surround her with a caring, unselfish love], just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her
Ephesians 5:28 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Even so husbands should and are morally obligated to love their own wives as [being in a sense] their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:25 New Living Translation (NLT)
For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her
Ephesians 5:28 New Living Translation (NLT)
In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself.
Ephesians 5:25 The Passion Translation (TPT)
And to the husbands, you are to demonstrate love for your wives with the same tender devotion that Christ demonstrated to us, his bride. For he died for us, sacrificing himself
Ephesians 5:28 The Passion Translation (TPT)
Husbands have the obligation of loving and caring for their wives the same way they love and care for their own bodies, for to love your wife is to love your own self.
Ephesians 5:25 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her