Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it:
Douay-Rheims 1899
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, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life:
Cross References
Genesis 24:67Who brought her into the tent of Sara his mother, and took her to wife: and he loved her so much, that it moderated the sorrow which was occasioned by his mother's death.
Proverbs 5:18Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:
Matthew 20:28Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a redemption for many.
John 6:51I am the living bread which came down from heaven.
Galatians 1:4Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present wicked world, according to the will of God and our Father:
Ephesians 5:2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour 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 →