Ephesians 5:25

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself 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 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
• Eph 5:28 : 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
• Eph 5:2 : 2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
• 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 from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
• Eph 5:33 : 33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
• Rev 1:5 : 5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
• Gal 2:20 : 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
• Prov 5:18-19 : 18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. 19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; 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 gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. 20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
• John 6:51 : 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
• Acts 20:28 : 28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath 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 meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
• Rev 5:9 : 9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
• 1 Tim 2:6 : 6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
• 1 Pet 1:18-21 : 18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: 20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, 21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.