Ephesians 5:33

Yet truly, each and every one of you should love his wife as himself. And a wife should fear her husband.

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In The King James Version

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

In Context

32This is a great Sacrament. And I am speaking in Christ and in the Church.

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Cross References

Esther 1:20And let this be published in all the provinces of your empire, (which is very wide,) and let all wives, the greater as much as the lesser, give honor to their husbands.”

Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and handed himself over for her,

Colossians 3:19Husbands, love your wives, and do not be bitter toward them.

1 Peter 3:2as they consider with fear your chaste behavior.

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 →

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