Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your own wives, as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
In Context
26that he might sanctify it, purifying it in the laver of water by the word,
Cross References
Matthew 20:28Even as the Son of man came not to be waited upon, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
John 6:51I am the bread that giveth life, which came down from heaven: if any person eat of this bread, he shall live to eternity; and the bread indeed which I shall give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Galatians 1:4who gave himself for our sins, that he might pluck us out of this present wicked world, according to the will of God and our Father:
Ephesians 5:2and walk in love as Christ also hath loved us, and given himself for us, an oblation and sacrifice to God, for an odour of a sweet smell.
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 →