Ephesians 5:33

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

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

In Context

32This is a great mystery: but I speak in reference to Christ and the church.

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives with divine love, as Christ also loved the church with divine love, and gave himself for her;

Colossians 3:19Ye husbands, love your wives with divine love, and be not harsh towards them.

1 Peter 3:2beholding your chaste deportment which is with reverence:

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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