Ephesians 5:32

This mystery is great: but I am speaking with regard to Christ, and with regard to the church.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

31For this reason shall a man forsake his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and the two shall be as one flesh.

33Nevertheless let every one of you individually see that each love his own wife even as himself; but the wife that she stand in awe of the husband.

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 11:2For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy; for I have espoused you to one husband, to present you a chaste virgin to Christ.

Colossians 2:2that their hearts may be comforted, firmly united together in love, and unto all riches of full assurance of understanding, in the knowledge of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

1 Timothy 3:16And confessedly great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified by the Spirit, seen of angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

Revelation 21:2And I John saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, descending from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride 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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