Ephesians 5:32
This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
In Context
Cross References
Song of Solomon 1:1The song of Songs, which is Solomon's.
Isaiah 62:4You will not now be named, She who is given up; and your land will no longer be named, The waste land: but you will have the name, My pleasure is in her, and your land will be named, Married: for the Lord has pleasure in you, and your land will be married.
2 Corinthians 11:2For I have a very great care for you: because you have been married by me to one husband, and it is my desire to give you completely holy to Christ.
Colossians 2:2So that their hearts may be comforted, and that being joined together in love, they may come to the full wealth of the certain knowledge of the secret of God, even Christ,
1 Timothy 3:16And without argument, great is the secret of religion: He who was seen in the flesh, who was given God's approval in the spirit, was seen by the angels, of whom the good news was given among the nations, in whom the world had faith, who was taken up in glory.
Revelation 21:2And I saw the holy town, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, like a bride made beautiful for her husband.
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 →