Ephesians 5:32

In this there is a profound truth – I am speaking of Christ and his church.

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In The King James Version

This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

In Context

31For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and be united to his wife; and the man and his wife will become one.

33However, for you individually, let each love his wife as if she were himself; and the wife be careful to respect her husband.

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 11:2I am jealous over you with the jealousy of God. For I promised you in marriage as a pure bride, to one husband – the Christ.

Colossians 2:2in the hope that they, being bound to one another by love, and keeping in view the full blessedness of a firm conviction, may be encouraged to strive for a perfect knowledge of God’s hidden truth,

1 Timothy 3:16Yes, and undeniably wonderful are the deep truths of our religion; for – ‘He was revealed in our nature, pronounced righteous in spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up into glory.’

Revelation 21:2And I saw the Holy City, Jerusalem, descending new out of heaven from God, like a bride adorned in readiness for her husband.

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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