Ephesians 5:31
"For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be as one."
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
30because we are, as it were, parts of His Body.
32That is a great truth hitherto kept secret: I mean the truth concerning Christ and the Church.
Cross References
Matthew 19:5and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be one'?
1 Corinthians 6:16Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute is one with her in body? For God says, "The two shall become one."
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 →