Ephesians 5:25

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Col 3:19 : 19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
  • 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with [your wives] according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.
  • Eph 5:28 : 28 Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.
  • Gen 2:24 : 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
  • Gal 1:4 : 4 who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father:
  • Eph 5:33 : 33 Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.
  • Rev 1:5 : 5 and from Jesus Christ, [who is] the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood;
  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
  • Prov 5:18-19 : 18 Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. 19 [ As] a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.
  • Matt 20:28 : 28 even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
  • Luke 22:19-20 : 19 And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and gave to them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. 20 And the cup in like manner after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood, [even] that which is poured out for you.
  • John 6:51 : 51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.
  • Gen 24:67 : 67 And 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.
  • 2 Sam 12:3 : 3 but 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 morsel, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
  • Rev 5:9 : 9 And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou was slain, and didst purchase unto God with thy blood [men] of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,
  • 1 Tim 2:6 : 6 who gave himself a ransom for all; the testimony [to be borne] in its own times;
  • 1 Pet 1:18-21 : 18 knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers; 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, [even the blood] of Christ: 20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of times for your sake, 21 who through him are believers in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

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  • Eph 5:26-33
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    26that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

    27that he might present the church to himself a glorious [church], not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

    28Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

    29for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

    30because we are members of his body.

    31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

    32This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.

    33Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.

  • Eph 5:21-24
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    21subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

    22Wives, [be in subjection] unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

    23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, [being] himself the saviour of the body.

    24But as the church is subject to Christ, so [let] the wives also [be] to their husbands in everything.

  • Col 3:18-19
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    18Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

    19Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

  • 1 Cor 7:2-5
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    2But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

    3Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

    4The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.

    5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

  • Eph 5:1-2
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    1Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

    2and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.

  • 1 Pet 3:5
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    5For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

  • 1 Pet 3:7-8
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    7Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with [your wives] according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

    8Finally, [be] ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

  • 1 Pet 3:1
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    1In like manner, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

  • Matt 19:5-6
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    5and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?

    6So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

  • Titus 2:4-5
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    4that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5[ to be] sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

  • Gen 2:24
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    24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 11:3
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    3But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

  • Mark 10:7
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    7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife;

  • 1 Cor 7:33
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    33but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

  • 1 Cor 7:16
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    16For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O husband, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

  • Eph 6:5
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    5Servants, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

  • 1 Cor 7:13-14
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    13And the woman that hath an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.

    14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

  • 2 Cor 11:2
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    2For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you [as] a pure virgin to Christ.

  • 1 Tim 3:5
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    5(but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

  • Eph 1:22
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    22and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,

  • Deut 24:1
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    1When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

  • Eph 4:15
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    15but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, [even] Christ;

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;

  • Prov 5:18
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    18Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

  • 1 Cor 7:10
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    10But unto the married I give charge, [yea] not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

  • 1 Thess 5:25
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    25Brethren, pray for us.

  • John 15:12
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    12This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.

  • Rom 5:8
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    8But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

  • Rom 7:2
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    2For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

  • 1 Tim 3:11
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    11Women in like manner [must be] grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

  • 1 Cor 7:39
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    39A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.