Ephesians 5:28

men. Same as "husbands", above.

wives. own wives. Compare "own husbands", Ephesians 5:22.

wife. own wife.

Related Commentaries of Ephesians 5:28

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies - Because they are one flesh; Ephesians 5:31 . This is the subject on which Paul had been s...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(14) So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. (14) Another argument: every man loves himself, e...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ephesians 5:22 to Ephesians 6:9 . Subordination in the Fear of Christ. The principle is illustrated by the relation ( a) of wives to husbands,...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

28. He that loveth his wife. An argument is now drawn from nature itself, to prove that men ought to love their wives. Every man, by his ver...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2121 THE MARRIAGE UNION Ephesians 5:21-33 . Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto yo...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. As their own bodies - For the woman is, properly speaki...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

So ought men,— So also, or answerably to this, ought men; or, on the other hand, taking the matter in a different but correspondent view.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 'So (in the same manner as Christ loves the Chur...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The old Darkness and new Light. Rules for the Married 1, 2. In close connexion with what precedes. 'It is the mark of beloved children to become i...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

RV 'Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as [being] their own bodies.' Not 'as much as,' or 'as if they were': their wives are the...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(4 a. ) In Ephesians 5:22-33 . St. Paul passes from warning against special sins to consider the three great relations of life, first considered as...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

[ 5. Practical Exhortation continued ( Ephesians 5:22 to Ephesians 6:9 ). (4) THE BEARING OF THE TRUTH OF UNITY ON THE THREE GREAT RELATIONS OF...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

So ought men to love their wives... — From this glorious digression; applying only to the divine Antitype, St. Paul comes back to the one point, in...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

All that the apostle had been saying was emphasized by the statement of their relationship to God as he called them to be "imitators of God." Again h...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(22) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. (23) For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of t...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies ,.... It is a common saying with the Jews, that a man's wife is כגופו, "as his own body" r; and...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. Ver. 28. As their own bodies ] No man may hide hims...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

But to return to the subject from which this pleasing digression has led us: So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies That is, as thems...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

WALK IN LOVE (vs.1-7) Verses 1 and 2 of chapter 5 are closely connected with verse 32 of chapter 4. God's gracious character of love that delight...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies; with the same kind of love wherewith they love their own bodies. The woman at first was taken...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Husbands and Wives Are A Pattern of Christ and His Church (5:22-33). In this passage there is a constant movement from the husband wife relationsh...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Even so ought husbands to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.' This confirms that the proper love of a h...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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Sermon Bible Commentary

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Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Further application of the comparison:
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ephesians 5:31 ; Ephesians 5:33 ; Genesis 2:21-24 ; Matthew 19:5
Wells of Living Water Commentary

Followers of God Ephesians 5:1-33 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The opening verse of today's chapter has a clear and clarion call to the children of God....
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

As their own bodies — That is, as themselves. He that loveth his wife loveth himself — Which is not a sin, but an indisputable duty.

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

Related Commentaries of Ephesians 5:28

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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