Ephesians 5:25

Geneva Bible (1560)

Husbands, loue your wiues, euen as Christ loued the Church, & gaue himselfe for it,

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  • Col 3:19 : 19 Husbands, loue your wiues, and be not bitter vnto them.
  • 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 Likewise ye husbands, dwel with them as men of knowledge, giuing honour vnto the woman, as vnto the weaker vessell, euen as they which are heires together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not interrupted.
  • Eph 5:28 : 28 So ought men to loue their wiues, as their owne bodies: he that loueth his wife, loueth him selfe.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 And walke in loue, euen as Christ hath loued vs, and hath giuen himselfe for vs, to be an offering and a sacrifice of a sweete smelling sauour to God.
  • Gen 2:24 : 24 Therefore shall man leaue his father and his mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
  • Gal 1:4 : 4 Which gaue himself for our sinnes, that he might deliuer vs from this present euill world according to the will of God euen our Father,
  • Eph 5:33 : 33 Therefore euery one of you, doe ye so: let euery one loue his wife, euen as himselfe, and let the wife see that shee feare her husband.
  • Rev 1:5 : 5 And from Iesus Christ, which is that faithful witnes, and that first begotten of the dead, & that Prince of the Kings of the earth, vnto him that loued vs, & washed vs from our sinnes in his blood,
  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I am crucified with Christ, but I liue, yet not I any more, but Christ liueth in me: and in that that I now liue in the flesh, I liue by the faith in the Sonne of God, who hath loued me, and giuen him selfe for me.
  • Prov 5:18-19 : 18 Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth. 19 Let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe: let her brests satisfie thee at all times, and delite in her loue continually.
  • Matt 20:28 : 28 Euen as the Sonne of man came not to be serued, but to serue, and to giue his life for the ransome of many.
  • Luke 22:19-20 : 19 And he tooke bread, and when he had giuen thankes, he brake it, and gaue to them, saying, This is my body, which is giuen for you: doe this in the remembrance of me. 20 Likewise also after supper he tooke the cup, saying, This cup is that newe Testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
  • John 6:51 : 51 I am that liuing breade, which came downe from heauen: if any man eate of this breade, hee shall liue for euer: and the bread that I will giue, is my flesh, which I will giue for the life of the world.
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Take heede therefore vnto your selues, and to all the flocke, whereof the holy Ghost hath made you Ouerseers, to feede the Church of God, which hee hath purchased with that his owne blood.
  • Gen 24:67 : 67 Afterward Izhak brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother, and he tooke Rebekah, and she was his wife, and he loued her: So Izhak was comforted after his mothers death.
  • 2 Sam 12:3 : 3 But the poore had none at all, saue one litle sheepe which he had bought, and nourished vp: and it grew vp with him, and with his children also, and did eate of his owne morsels, and dranke of his owne cup, and slept in his bosome, and was vnto him as his daughter.
  • Rev 5:9 : 9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthie to take the Booke, and to open the seales thereof, because thou wast killed, and hast redeemed vs to God by thy blood out of euery kinred, and tongue, and people, and nation,
  • 1 Tim 2:6 : 6 Who gaue himselfe a ransome for all men, to be that testimonie in due time,
  • 1 Pet 1:18-21 : 18 Knowing that yee were not redeemed with corruptible things, as siluer and golde, from your vaine conuersation, receiued by the traditions of the fathers, 19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lambe vndefiled, and without spot. 20 Which was ordeined before the foundation of the world, but was declared in the last times for your sakes, 21 Which by his meanes doe beleeue in God that raised him from the dead, and gaue him glorie, that your faith and hope might bee in God,

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  • Eph 5:26-33
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    26That hee might sanctifie it, and clense it by the washing of water through the worde,

    27That hee might make it vnto him selfe a glorious Church, not hauing spot or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it shoulde bee holy and without blame.

    28So ought men to loue their wiues, as their owne bodies: he that loueth his wife, loueth him selfe.

    29For no man euer yet hated his owne flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, euen as the Lord doeth the Church.

    30For we are members of his bodie, of his flesh, and of his bones.

    31For this cause shal a man leaue father and mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they twaine shalbe one flesh.

    32This is a great secrete, but I speake concerning Christ, and concerning the Church.

    33Therefore euery one of you, doe ye so: let euery one loue his wife, euen as himselfe, and let the wife see that shee feare her husband.

  • Eph 5:21-24
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    21Submitting your selues one to another in the feare of God.

    22Wiues, submit your selues vnto your husbands, as vnto the Lord.

    23For the husband is the wiues head, euen as Christ is the head of the Church, and the same is the sauiour of his body.

    24Therfore as the Church is in subiection to Christ, euen so let the wiues be to their husbads in euery thing.

  • Col 3:18-19
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    18Wiues, submit your selues vnto your husbands, as it is comely in the Lord.

    19Husbands, loue your wiues, and be not bitter vnto them.

  • 1 Cor 7:2-5
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    2Neuertheles, to auoide fornication, let euery man haue his wife, and let euery woman haue her owne husband.

    3Let the husbande giue vnto the wife due beneuolence, and likewise also the wife vnto the husband.

    4The wife hath not the power of her owne bodie, but ye husband: & likewise also the husband hath not ye power of his own body, but the wife.

    5Defraude not one another, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may giue your selues to fasting and praier, and againe come together that Satan tempt you not for your incontinecie.

  • Eph 5:1-2
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    1Bee yee therefore followers of God, as deare children,

    2And walke in loue, euen as Christ hath loued vs, and hath giuen himselfe for vs, to be an offering and a sacrifice of a sweete smelling sauour to God.

  • 1 Pet 3:5
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    5For euen after this maner in time past did the holy women, which trusted in God, tire them selues, and were subiect to their husbands.

  • 1 Pet 3:7-8
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    7Likewise ye husbands, dwel with them as men of knowledge, giuing honour vnto the woman, as vnto the weaker vessell, euen as they which are heires together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not interrupted.

    8Finally, be ye all of one minde: one suffer with another: loue as brethren: bee pitifull: bee courteous,

  • 1 Pet 3:1
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    1Likewise let the wiues bee subiect to their husbandes, that euen they which obey not the worde, may without the worde be wonne by the conuersation of the wiues,

  • Matt 19:5-6
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    5And sayd, For this cause, shal a man leaue father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife, and they which were two shalbe one flesh.

    6Wherefore they are no more twaine, but one flesh. Let not man therefore put asunder that, which God hath coupled together.

  • Titus 2:4-5
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    4That they may instruct the yong women to be sober minded, that they loue their husbads, that they loue their children,

    5That they be temperate, chaste, keeping at home, good & subiect vnto their husbands, that the word of God be not euill spoken of.

  • Gen 2:24
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    24Therefore shall man leaue his father and his mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 11:3
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    3But I wil that ye know, that Christ is the head of euery man: and the man is the womans head: and God is Christs head.

  • Mark 10:7
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    7For this cause shall man leaue his father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:33
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    33But hee that is maried, careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:16
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    16For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt saue thine husband? Or what knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt saue thy wife?

  • Eph 6:5
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    5Seruants, be obedient vnto them that are your masters, according to the flesh, with feare & trembling in singlenesse of your hearts as vnto Christ,

  • 1 Cor 7:13-14
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    13And the woman which hath an husbande that beleeueth not, if he be content to dwell with her, let her not forsake him.

    14For the vnbeleeuing husband is sanctified to the wife, and the vnbeleeuing wife is sanctified to the husbande, els were your children vncleane: but nowe are they holie.

  • 2 Cor 11:2
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    2For I am ielous ouer you, with godly ielousie: for I haue prepared you for one husband, to present you as a pure virgine to Christ:

  • 1 Tim 3:5
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    5For if any cannot rule his owne house, how shall he care for the Church of God?

  • Eph 1:22
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    22And hath made all things subiect vnder his feete, and hath giuen him ouer all things to be the head to the Church,

  • Deut 24:1
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    1When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, if so be shee finde no fauour in his eyes, because hee hath espyed some filthinesse in her, then let him write her a bill of diuorcement, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

  • Eph 4:15
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    15But let vs folowe the truth in loue, and in all things, grow vp into him, which is the head, that is, Christ.

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29And this I say, brethren, because the time is short, hereafter that both they which haue wiues, be as though they had none:

  • Prov 5:18
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    18Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.

  • 1 Cor 7:10
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    10And vnto ye maried I comand, not I, but ye Lord, Let not ye wife depart from her husband.

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

  • John 15:12
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    12This is my commandement, that ye loue one another, as I haue loued you.

  • Rom 5:8
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    8But God setteth out his loue towards vs, seeing that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for vs.

  • Rom 7:2
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    2For the woman which is in subiection to a man, is bound by the Lawe to the man, while he liueth: but if the man bee dead, shee is deliuered from the lawe of the man.

  • 1 Tim 3:11
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    11Likewise their wiues must be honest, not euill speakers, but sober, and faithfull in all things.

  • 1 Cor 7:39
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    39The wife is bounde by the Lawe, as long as her husband liueth: but if her husband bee dead, shee is at libertie to marie with whome she will, onely in the Lord.