Efesianëve 5:28

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Sepse askush nuk urreu mishin e vet, por e ushqen dhe kujdeset me butësi për të, sikurse edhe Zoti bën me kishën,

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as: Ephesians 5:31, Ephesians 5:33, Genesis 2:21-24, Matthew 19:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:24 - and they shall be one flesh Deuteronomy 22:13 - General Deuteronomy 24:5 - a man Ecclesiastes 3:8 - time to love Isaiah 28:7 - erred Matthew 19:6 - God Mark 10:8 - one flesh 1 Corinthians 7:2 - let Ephesians 5:25 - love Colossians 3:19 - love

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies,.... It is a common saying with the Jews, that a man's wife is כגופו, "as his own body" r; and it is one of the precepts of their wise men, that a man should honour his wife more than his body, ואהבה כגופו, and "love her as his body" s; for as they also say, they are but one body t; the apostle seems to speak in the language of his countrymen; however, his doctrine and theirs agree in this point: wherefore

he that loveth his wife loveth himself; because she is one body and flesh with him.

r T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 24. 1. & Becorot, fol. 35. 2. Maimon. Hilchot Becorot, c. 2. sect. 17. Tzeror Hammor, fol. 18. 2. s T. Bab. Yebamot, fol. 62. 2. & Sanhedrin, fol. 76. 2. Derech Eretz, fol. 17. 4. Maimon Hilchot Ishot, c. 15. sect. 19. t Tzeror Hammor, fol. 6. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies - Because they are one flesh; Ephesians 5:31. This is the subject on which Paul had been speaking, and from which he had been diverted by the allusion to the glorified church. The doctrine here is, that a husband should have the same care for the comfort of his wife which he has for himself. He should regard her as one with himself; and as he protects his own body from cold and hunger, and, when sick and suffering, endeavors to restore it to health, so he should regard and treat her.

He that loveth his wife loveth himself -

(1) Because she is one with him, and their interests are identified.

(2) Because, by this, he really promotes his own welfare, as much as he does when he takes care of his own body. A man’s kindness to his wife will be more than repaid by the happiness which she imparts; and all the real solicitude which he shows to make her happy, will come to more than it costs. If a man wishes to promote his own happiness in the most effectual way, he had better begin by showing kindness to his wife.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 28. As their own bodies — For the woman is, properly speaking, a part of the man; for God made man male and female, and the woman was taken out of his side; therefore is she flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bone; and therefore, he that loveth his wife loveth himself, for they two are one flesh. The apostle, in all these verses, refers to the creation and original state of the first human pair.