Ephesians 5:27 · KJV
“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.”
— Ephesians 5:27
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Ephesians 5 — Context
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27That 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.
28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
Cross References
Colossians 1:22
In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
Hebrews 9:14
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? {spot: or, fault}
1 Peter 1:19
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
2 Corinthians 11:2
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present {you as} a chaste virgin to Christ.
Ephesians 1:4
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
2 Corinthians 4:14
Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present {us} with you.
Song of Solomon 4:7
Thou {art} all fair, my love; {there is} no spot in thee.
Jude 1:24
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present {you} faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,