Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
In Context
24But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.
26that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
Cross References
Genesis 24:67And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
Proverbs 5:18Let thy fountain be blessed; and rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
Matthew 20:28even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
John 6:51I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.
Galatians 1:4who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father:
Ephesians 5:2and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a 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 →