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Soοὕτωςhusbandsοἱ ἄνδρεςalsoκαὶoughtὀφείλουσινto loveἀγαπᾶνtheir ownἑαυτῶνwivesτὰς γυναῖκαςasὡςtheir ownἑαυτῶνbodies.τὰ σώματαHe who lovesὁ ἀγαπῶνhis ownἑαυτοῦwifeτὴν γυναῖκαlovesἀγαπᾷhimself.ἑαυτὸν
Ephesians 5:28
Study it in the app“So husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.”
Paul holds up the Messiah's self-giving love as the husband's modelDating and Marriage
With the Greek beneath
Ephesians 5:28, word by word
- husbandsἄνδρεςandres
husband
The married man, his wife's partner.
Where else “andres” appears- oughtὀφείλουσινopheilousin
ought
To be under obligation to do something.
Where else “opheilousin” appears- to loveἀγαπᾶνagapan
love
Love: to seek the good of the other, even of someone who does not deserve it.
Where else “agapan” appears- wivesγυναῖκαςgynaikas
wife
A married woman, joined to her husband.
Where else “gynaikas” appears- bodiesσώματαsōmata
body
The person in his physical part, living or dead.
Where else “sōmata” appears
The context
27so that he himself might present the assembly to himself glorious, not having spot or wrinkle or any of such things, but that she might be holy and without blemish.
28 · This verse (above)
29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as also the Messiah does the assembly,
To study Ephesians 5 in a group
1. What it says
What does Paul say about walking in love and walking as children of light (v. 1-2, 8-9)?
2. What it means
Paul links the Messiah's love for the assembly with a husband's love for his wife (v. 25-29). What does the text say that love is like?
3. How I live it
Paul invites us to give thanks always and to speak with psalms and songs (v. 19-20). What simple habit could help you do that?