“Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ephesians 5 contains 33 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.