Ephesians 5:25

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οἱ ἄνδρες, ἀγαπᾶτε τὰς γυναῖκας ἑαυτῶν, καθὼς καὶ ὁ Χριστὸς ἠγάπησεν τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, καὶ ἑαυτὸν παρέδωκεν ὑπὲρ αὐτῆς·

Transliteration

The andres, agapate the gynaikas heautōn, kathōs also the Christos ēgapēsen the ekklēsian, and heauton paredōken hyper autēs

Grammar Details

• *andres*: nominative, masculine, plural - husbands/men
• *agapate*: present imperative, active, 2nd plural - love [continuous command]
• *gynaikas*: accusative, feminine, plural - wives/women
• *heautōn*: genitive, masculine, plural, reflexive pronoun - of yourselves/your own
• *kathōs*: adverb - just as/even as
• *Christos*: nominative, masculine, singular - Christ
• *ēgapēsen*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd singular - loved [completed action]
• *ekklēsian*: accusative, feminine, singular - church/assembly
• *heauton*: accusative, masculine, singular, reflexive pronoun - himself
• *paredōken*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd singular - gave up/delivered
• *hyper*: preposition + genitive - for/on behalf of
• *autēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of her

Word Meanings

• *andres*: husbands/men
• *agapate*: love/cherish
• *gynaikas*: wives/women
• *kathōs*: just as/according as/even as
• *ēgapēsen*: loved/cherished
• *ekklēsian*: church/assembly/congregation
• *paredōken*: gave up/delivered/surrendered
• *hyper*: for/on behalf of/for the sake of

Referenced Verses

• 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, {G2532} 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 {G2596} ye also severally {G3779} 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 {G1161} which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.
• Acts 20:28 : 28 Take heed {G3767} 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, {G299} 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 {G1453} from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.