Ephesians 5:25 “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Hi…”

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

World English Bible

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her,

American Standard Version

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

Geneva Bible 1599

Husbands, loue your wiues, euen as Christ loued the Church, and gaue himselfe for it,

Darby Translation

Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,

Young's Literal Translation

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

Bible in Basic English

Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;

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Cross references

“love”

1 Peter 3:7 Colossians 3:19 Ephesians 5:28 Genesis 2:24 Genesis 24:67 2 Samuel 12:3

1 Peter 3:7 · BSB

Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

Colossians 3:19 · BSB

Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

Ephesians 5:28 · BSB

In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Genesis 2:24 · BSB

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Genesis 24:67 · BSB

And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.

2 Samuel 12:3 · BSB

but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter t…

“loved”

Ephesians 5:2 Galatians 1:4 Revelation 5:9 Galatians 2:20 Matthew 20:28 Revelation 1:5

Ephesians 5:2 · BSB

and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

Galatians 1:4 · BSB

who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

Revelation 5:9 · BSB

And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

Galatians 2:20 · BSB

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

Matthew 20:28 · BSB

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

Revelation 1:5 · BSB

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,

Also

Ephesians 5:33

Ephesians 5:33 · BSB

Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

26to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

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