"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;" — Ephesians 5:25

Ephesians 5:25 · KJV

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

— Ephesians 5:25

Verse 24

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so {let} the wives {be} to their own husbands in every thing.

Verse 26

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

Ephesians 5 — Context

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.

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so {let} the wives {be} to their own husbands in every thing.

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

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

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.

Cross References

1 Peter 3:7

Likewise, 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 3:19

Husbands, love {your} wives, and be not bitter against them.

Ephesians 5:28

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Genesis 2:24

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife {see} that she reverence {her} husband.

Ephesians 5:2

And 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 1:4

Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:

Revelation 5:9

And 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;