Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless, let each of you severally so love his wife, even as himself: and let the wife reverence her husband.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
32This is a great mystery; but I am speaking of the Messiah, and of his church.
Cross References
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, even as the Messiah loved his church, and delivered himself up for it;
Colossians 3:19Husbands, love ye your wives, and be not bitter towards them.
1 Peter 3:2when they see, that ye conduct yourselves with reverence and chastity.
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 →