Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and handed himself over for her,
Catholic Public Domain Version
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 sanctify her, washing her clean by water and the Word of life,
Cross References
Genesis 24:67And he led her into the tent of Sarah his mother, and he accepted her as wife. And he loved her so very much, that it tempered the sorrow which befell him at his mother’s death.
Proverbs 5:18Let your spring be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth:
Matthew 20:28even as the Son of man has not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a redemption for many.”
John 6:51I am the living bread, who descended from heaven.
Galatians 1:4who gave himself on behalf of our sins, so that he might deliver us from this present wicked age, according to the will of God our Father.
Ephesians 5:2And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and delivered himself for us, as an oblation and a sacrifice to God, with a fragrance of sweetness.
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 →