Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your own wives even as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
In Context
24But as the church is subject to the Christ, so also the wives to their own husbands in everything.
26so that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the washing of water by the word,
Cross References
Genesis 24:67And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Proverbs 5:18Let thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of thy youth:
Matthew 20:28Just as the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
John 6:51I am the living bread, having come down out of heaven. If any man eats of this bread, he will live into the age. And also, the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Galatians 1:4who gave himself for our sins, so that he might rescue us, according to the will of our God and Father, out of the evil age that has come,
Ephesians 5:2And walk in love, as also the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.
Matthew Henry on Ephesians 5:22-33
Duties of Husbands and Wives. ( a. d. 61.) 21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. 22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might… Read the whole commentary →