Ephesians 5:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Col 3:19 : 19 Husbands, have love for your wives, and be not bitter against them.
  • 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 And you husbands, give thought to your way of life with your wives, giving honour to the woman who is the feebler vessel, but who has an equal part in the heritage of the grace of life; so that you may not be kept from prayer.
  • Eph 5:28 : 28 Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.
  • Gen 2:24 : 24 For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.
  • Gal 1:4 : 4 Who gave himself for our sins, so that he might make us free from this present evil world, after the purpose of our God and Father:
  • Eph 5:33 : 33 But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.
  • Rev 1:5 : 5 And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;
  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.
  • Prov 5:18-19 : 18 Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years. 19 As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.
  • Matt 20:28 : 28 Even as the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.
  • Luke 22:19-20 : 19 And he took bread and, having given praise, he gave it to them when it had been broken, saying, This is my body, which is given for you: do this in memory of me. 20 And in the same way, after the meal, he took the cup, saying, This cup is the new testament, made with my blood which is given for you.
  • John 6:51 : 51 I am the living bread which has come from heaven: if any man takes this bread for food he will have life for ever: and more than this, the bread which I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world.
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.
  • Gen 24:67 : 67 And Isaac took Rebekah into his tent and she became his wife; and in his love for her, Isaac was comforted after his father's death.
  • 2 Sam 12:3 : 3 But the poor man had only one little she-lamb, which he had got and taken care of: from its birth it had been with him like one of his children; his meat was its food, and from his cup it took its drink, resting in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him.
  • Rev 5:9 : 9 And their voices are sounding in a new song, saying, It is right for you to take the book and to make it open: for you were put to death and have made an offering to God of your blood for men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation,
  • 1 Tim 2:6 : 6 Who gave himself as an offering for all; witness of which was to be given at the right time;
  • 1 Pet 1:18-21 : 18 Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction, 19 But through holy blood, like that of a clean and unmarked lamb, even the blood of Christ: 20 Who was marked out by God before the making of the world, but was caused to be seen in these last times for you, 21 Who through him have faith in God who took him up again from the dead into glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

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    26 So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,

    27 And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete.

    28 Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

    29 For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;

    30 Because we are parts of his body.

    31 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

    32 This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.

    33 But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.

  • Eph 5:21-24
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    21 Letting yourselves be ruled by one another in the fear of Christ.

    22 Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.

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

    24 And as the church is under Christ's authority, so let wives be under the rule of their husbands in all things.

  • Col 3:18-19
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    18 Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as is right in the Lord.

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

  • 1 Cor 7:2-5
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    2 But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

    3 Let the husband give to the wife what is right; and let the wife do the same to the husband.

    4 The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.

    5 Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.

  • Eph 5:1-2
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    1 Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;

    2 And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

  • 1 Pet 3:5
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    5 And these were the ornaments of the holy women of the past, whose hope was in God, being ruled by their husbands:

  • 1 Pet 3:7-8
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    7 And you husbands, give thought to your way of life with your wives, giving honour to the woman who is the feebler vessel, but who has an equal part in the heritage of the grace of life; so that you may not be kept from prayer.

    8 Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride:

  • 1 Pet 3:1
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    1 Wives, be ruled by your husbands; so that even if some of them give no attention to the word, their hearts may be changed by the behaviour of their wives,

  • Matt 19:5-6
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    5 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?

    6 So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.

  • Titus 2:4-5
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    4 Training the younger women to have love for their husbands and children,

    5 To be wise in mind, clean in heart, kind; working in their houses, living under the authority of their husbands; so that no evil may be said of the word of God.

  • Gen 2:24
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    24 For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 11:3
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    3 But it is important for you to keep this fact in mind, 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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    7 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;

  • 1 Cor 7:33
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    33 But the married man gives his attention to the things of this world, how he may give pleasure to his wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:16
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    16 For how may you be certain, O wife, that you will not be the cause of salvation to your husband? or you, O husband, that you may not do the same for your wife?

  • Eph 6:5
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    5 Servants, do what is ordered by those who are your natural masters, having respect and fear for them, with all your heart, as to Christ;

  • 1 Cor 7:13-14
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    13 And if a woman has a husband who is not a Christian, and it is his desire to go on living with her, let her not go away from her husband.

    14 For the husband who has not faith is made holy through his Christian wife, and the wife who is not a Christian is made holy through the brother: if not, your children would be unholy, but now are they holy.

  • 2 Cor 11:2
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    2 For I have a very great care for you: because you have been married by me to one husband, and it is my desire to give you completely holy to Christ.

  • 1 Tim 3:5
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    5 (For if a man has not the art of ruling his house, how will he take care of the church of God?)

  • Eph 1:22
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    22 And he has put all things under his feet, and has made him to be head over all things to the church,

  • Deut 24:1
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    1 If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.

  • Eph 4:15
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    15 But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29 But I say this, my brothers, the time is short; and from now it will be wise for those who have wives to be as if they had them not;

  • Prov 5:18
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    18 Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

  • 1 Cor 7:10
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    10 But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband

  • 1 Thess 5:25
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    25 Brothers, keep us in mind in your prayers.

  • John 15:12
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    12 This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.

  • Rom 5:8
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    8 But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

  • Rom 7:2
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    2 For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.

  • 1 Tim 3:11
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    11 Women are to be serious in behaviour, saying no evil of others, controlling themselves, true in all things.

  • 1 Cor 7:39
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    39 It is right for a wife to be with her husband as long as he is living; but when her husband is dead, she is free to be married to another; but only to a Christian.