Ephesians 5:26
to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
In Context
25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
Cross References
Ezekiel 16:9Then I bathed you with water, rinsed off your blood, and anointed you with oil.
Zechariah 13:1“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
John 15:3You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
John 17:7Now they know that everything You have given Me comes from You.
Acts 22:16And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on the name of the Lord.’
1 Corinthians 6:11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our 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 →