Ephesians 5:25
The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
In Context
26that he might sanctify it, having cleansed [it] with the bathing of the water in the saying,
Cross References
Genesis 24:67and Isaac bringeth her in unto the tent of Sarah his mother, and he taketh Rebekah, and she becometh his wife, and he loveth her, and Isaac is comforted after [the death of] his mother.
Proverbs 5:18Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,
Matthew 20:28even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'
John 6:51'I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live — to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.'
Galatians 1:4who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,
Ephesians 5:2and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself 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 →