Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, as the Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it,
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
In Context
26that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the bath of water through the word,
Cross References
Matthew 20:28even as the Son of man came, not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
John 6:51I am the bread that lives, which came down from heaven. If any one eat of this bread, he shall live forever. And 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, that he might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
Ephesians 5:2and walk in love, as the Christ also loved us, and gave himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet odor.
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 →