Ephesians 5:32

This is a great mystery; but I am speaking of the Messiah, and of his church.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

31For this reason, a man should quit his father and his mother, and adhere to his wife; and the two should be one flesh.

33Nevertheless, let each of you severally so love his wife, even as himself: and let the wife reverence her husband.

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 11:2For I am jealous over you, with a godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to a husband as a chaste virgin, whom I would present to the Messiah.

Colossians 2:2that their hearts may be comforted, and that they, by love, may come to all the riches of assurance, and to the understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God the Father, and of the Messiah,

1 Timothy 3:16and truly great, is this mystery of righteousness, which was revealed in the flesh, and justified in the spirit, and seen by angels, and proclaimed among the Gentiles, and believed on in the world, and received up into glory.

Revelation 21:2And I saw the holy city, the New Jerusalem, descending from God out of heaven, prepared 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 →

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