Ephesians 5:33
Good News Translation
But it also applies to you: every husband must love his wife as himself, and every wife must respect her husband.

New Revised Standard Version
Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband.

Contemporary English Version
So each husband should love his wife as much as he loves himself, and each wife should respect her husband.

New American Bible
In any case, each one of you should love his wife as himself, and the wife should respect her husband.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular love for his wife as himself: And let the wife fear her husband.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular love for his wife as himself: And let the wife fear her husband.

let.

Ephesians 5:25,28,29 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and delivered himself up for it: . . .

Colossians 3:19 Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter towards them.

1 Peter 3:7 Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.

reverence.

Ephesians 5:22 Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord:

1 Kings 1:31 And Bethsabee, bowing with her face to the earth, worshipped the king, saying: May my lord David live for ever.

Esther 1:20 And let this be published through all the provinces of thy empire, (which is very wide,) and let all wives, as well of the greater as of the lesser, give honour to their husbands.

Hebrews 12:9 Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh for instructors, and we reverenced them. Shall we not much more obey the Father of spirits and live?

1 Peter 3:2-6 Considering your chaste conversation with fear. . . .

Context
Wives and Husbands
32This is a great sacrament: but I speak in Christ and in the church. 33Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular love for his wife as himself: And let the wife fear her husband.
Cross References
Psalm 45:11
And the king shall greatly desire thy beauty; for he is the Lord thy God, and him they shall adore.

Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and delivered himself up for it:

Ephesians 5:28
So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Ephesians 5:32
This is a great sacrament: but I speak in Christ and in the church.

1 Peter 3:2
Considering your chaste conversation with fear.

1 Peter 3:5
For after this manner heretofore, the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

1 Peter 3:7
Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.

Ephesians 5:32
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