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Ephesians 5:33
Ephesians 5:33 is verse 33 of Ephesians chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
King James Version
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
World English Bible
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
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Ephesians 5:31–33 · Berean Standard Bible
31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
32 This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
Ephesians 5:28In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:29Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.
Colossians 3:19Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
1 Peter 3:7Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
Ephesians 5:22Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
1 Kings 1:31Bathsheba bowed facedown in homage to the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever!”
Esther 1:20The edict the king issues will be heard throughout his vast kingdom—and so all women, from the least to the greatest, will honor their husbands.”
Hebrews 12:9Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?
1 Peter 3:2when they see your pure and reverent demeanor.
1 Peter 3:3Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,
1 Peter 3:4but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.
1 Peter 3:5For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves. They put their hope in God and were submissive to their husbands,
1 Peter 3:6just as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him lord. And you are her children if you do what is right and refuse to give way to fear.