Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
In Context
24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
26to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
Cross References
Genesis 24:67And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.
Proverbs 5:18May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
Matthew 20:28just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
John 6:51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.”
Galatians 1:4who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
Ephesians 5:2and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
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 →