Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
In Context
26So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,
Cross References
Genesis 24:67And Isaac took Rebekah into his tent and she became his wife; and in his love for her, Isaac was comforted after his father's death.
Proverbs 5:18Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.
Matthew 20:28Even as the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.
John 6:51I am the living bread which has come from heaven: if any man takes this bread for food he will have life for ever: and more than this, the bread which 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 make us free from this present evil world, after the purpose of our God and Father:
Ephesians 5:2And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.
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 →