Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
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Ephesians 5:23-27
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5:25-33 Christian husbands are to love their wives just as Christ loved the church—that is, sacrificially, for Christ gave up his life for her (5:2; cp. Col 3:19; 1 Pet 3:7).
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Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they 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.
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
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