KJV King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
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Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
WEB World English Bible
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
ASV American Standard Version
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,
Surrounding context — Ephesians 5
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 sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ΟἱG3588 · hothe/this/whoἄνδρες,G435 · anērmanἀγαπᾶτεG25 · agapaōto loveτὰςG3588 · hothe/this/whoγυναῖκαςG1135 · gunēwomanκαθὼςG2531 · kathōsas/just asκαὶG2532 · kaiandὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoΧριστὸςG5547 · ChristosChristἠγάπησενG25 · agapaōto loveτὴνG3588 · hothe/this/whoἐκκλησίανG1577 · ekklēsiaassemblyκαὶG2532 · kaiandἑαυτὸνG1438 · heautouthemselfπαρέδωκενG3860 · paradidōmito deliverὑπὲρG5228 · huperabove/forαὐτῆςG846 · autosit/s/he
Cross-references
1 Peter 3:7Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.Colossians 3:19Husbands, love [your] wives, and be not bitter against them.Ephesians 5:28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.Genesis 2:24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.Ephesians 5:33Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband.Ephesians 5:2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.Galatians 1:4Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:Galatians 2:20I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.Revelation 5:9And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;Proverbs 5:18-19Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with 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.Revelation 1:5And from Jesus Christ, [who is] the faithful witness, [and] the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,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].Acts 20:28Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.John 6:51I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.1 Peter 1:18-21Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain conversation [received] by tradition from your fathers;Luke 22:19-20And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake [it], and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.2 Samuel 12:3But the poor [man] had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
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