28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
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; …
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?
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-33)Here the apostle begins his exhortation to the discharge of relative duties. As a general foundation for these duties, he lays down that rule Eph. 5:21. There is a mutual submission that Christians owe one to another, condescending to bear one another’s burdens: not advancing themselves above others, nor domineering over one another and giving laws to one another. Paul was an example of this truly…
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