Ephesians 5:32

This is a great mystery: but I speak in reference to Christ and the church.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

31on account of this a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife: and they two shall be one flesh.

33Moreover you also each one thus love his own wife with divine love as himself; and that the wife also reverence the husband.

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 11:2For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God: for I espoused you to one husband, to present you a pure virgin to Christ;

Colossians 2:2in order that their hearts may be comforted, being knitted together in divine love, and in all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, unto the perfect knowledge of the mystery of God, of Christ,

1 Timothy 3:16And assuredly great is the mystery of godliness; Who is manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, was seen of angels, was preached among the Gentiles, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory.

Revelation 21:2And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God, prepared as a bride is adorned 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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