Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave up Himself for it:
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
In Context
26to sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Cross References
Matthew 20:28as the Son of man came not to be ministred unto, but to minister and to give his life a ransom for many.
John 6:51I am the living bread, which came down from heaven: if any one eat of this bread, he shall live for ever. And the bread, that I will give, is my flesh, which I will give up for the life of the world.
Galatians 1:4who gave himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from the present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father:
Ephesians 5:2even as Christ hath loved us, and given Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet perfume.
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 →