Ephesians 5:32

There is a deep mystery here - I am speaking of Christ and his church.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

31For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

33But as for you individually, you must each one of you love his own wife exactly as if she were yourself; and the wife, on her part, should reverence her husband.

Read all of Ephesians 5

Cross References

2 Corinthians 11:2I have a divine jealousy on your behalf; for I betrothed you to one only husband, even to Christ, that I might present you to him, a chaste virgin.

Colossians 2:2May their hearts be comforted! May they be knit together in love! May they gain in all its riches the full assurance of their understanding! May they come to a perfect knowledge of the secret truth of God, which is Christ himself.

1 Timothy 3:16Yes! without contradiction, great is the mystery of godliness!

Revelation 21:2And I saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, made ready like 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Ephesians 5:32