Ephesians 5:32

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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  • 2 Cor 11:2 : 2 For 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:
  • Col 2:2 : 2 That their heartes might be comforted, and they knit together in loue, and in all riches of the full assurance of vnderstanding, to know the mysterie of God, euen the Father, and of Christ:
  • Isa 54:5 : 5 For hee that made thee, is thine husband (whose Name is the Lorde of hostes) and thy redeemer the Holy one of Israel, shall be called the God of the whole world.
  • Isa 62:4-5 : 4 It shall no more be sayd vnto thee, Forsaken, neither shal it be said any more to thy land, Desolate, but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lorde deliteth in thee, and thy land shall haue an husband. 5 For as a yong man marieth a virgine, so shall thy sonnes marry thee: and as a bridegrome is glad of the bride, so shall thy God reioyce ouer thee.
  • Rev 21:2 : 2 And I Iohn sawe the holie citie newe Hierusalem come downe from God out of heauen, prepared as a bride trimmed for her husband.
  • 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 And without controuersie, great is the mysterie of godlinesse, which is, God is manifested in the flesh, iustified in the Spirit, seene of Angels, preached vnto the Gentiles, beleeued on in the world, and receiued vp in glorie.
  • Rev 19:7-8 : 7 Let vs be glad and reioyce, and giue glory to him: for the marriage of that Lambe is come, and his wife hath made her selfe ready. 8 And to her was granted, that she should be arayed with pure fine linnen and shining, for the fine linnen is the righteousnesse of Saintes.
  • John 3:29 : 29 He that hath the bride, is the bridegrome: but the friend of the bridegrome which standeth and heareth him, reioyceth greatly, because of the bridegromes voyce. This my ioy therefore is fulfilled.
  • Song 1:1-8 : 1 An excellent song which was Salomons. 2 Let him kisse me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy loue is better then wine. 3 Because of the sauour of thy good ointments thy name is as an ointment powred out: therefore the virgins loue thee. 4 Drawe me: we will runne after thee: the King hath brought me into his chabers: we will reioyce and be glad in thee: we will remember thy loue more then wine: the righteous do loue thee. 5 I am blacke, O daughters of Ierusalem, but comely, as the tentes of Kedar, and as the curtaines of Salomon. 6 Regard ye me not because I am blacke: for the sunne hath looked vpon mee. The sonnes of my mother were angry against mee: they made me the keeper of ye vines: but I kept not mine owne vine. 7 Shewe me, O thou, whome my soule loueth, where thou feedest, where thou liest at noone: for why should I be as she that turneth aside to the flockes of thy companions? 8 If thou knowe not, O thou the fairest among women, get thee foorth by the steps of the flocke, and feede thy kiddes by the tents of the shepheards.
  • Ps 45:9-9 : 9 Kings daugthers were among thine honorable wiues: vpon thy right hand did stand the Queene in a vesture of golde of Ophir. 10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine eare: forget also thine owne people and thy fathers house. 11 So shal the King haue pleasure in thy beautie: for he is thy Lord, and reuerence thou him. 12 And the daughter of Tyrus with the rich of the people shall doe homage before thy face with presents. 13 The Kings daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of broydred golde. 14 She shalbe brought vnto the King in raiment of needle worke: the virgins that follow after her, and her companions shall be brought vnto thee. 15 With ioy & gladnes shall they be brought, and shall enter into the Kings palace. 16 In steade of thy fathers shall thy children be: thou shalt make them princes through all the earth. 17 I will make thy Name to be remembred through all generations: therefore shall the people giue thanks vnto thee world without ende.
  • 1 Tim 3:8 : 8 Likewise must Deacons be graue, not double tongued, not giuen vnto much wine, neither to filthy lucre,
  • Eph 6:19 : 19 And for me, that vtterance may be giuen vnto me, that I may open my mouth boldly to publish the secret of the Gospel,

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

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

    25Husbands, loue your wiues, euen as Christ loued the Church, & gaue himselfe for it,

    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.

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

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