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

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

as		Eph 5:31,33; Gen 2:21-24; Mat 19:5

Correlating Passages

	Eph 5:31	For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
	Eph 5:33	Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband.
	Gen 2:21	And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
	Gen 2:22	And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
	Gen 2:23	And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
	Gen 2:24	Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
	Mat 19:5	And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

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Scott, Thomas. "Ephesians 5:28," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Eph/5/28.html>.

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