Ephesians 5:25

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Col 3:19 : 19 Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.
  • 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
  • Eph 5:28 : 28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
  • Gen 2:24 : 24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
  • Gal 1:4 : 4 who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father--
  • Eph 5:33 : 33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
  • Rev 1:5 : 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed 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. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
  • Prov 5:18-19 : 18 Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. 19 A loving doe and a graceful deer-- let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
  • Matt 20:28 : 28 even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
  • Luke 22:19-20 : 19 He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave to them, saying, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me." 20 Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
  • John 6:51 : 51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
  • Gen 24:67 : 67 Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
  • 2 Sam 12:3 : 3 but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was to him like a daughter.
  • Rev 5:9 : 9 They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
  • 1 Tim 2:6 : 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;
  • 1 Pet 1:18-21 : 18 knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, 19 but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ; 20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake, 21 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

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  • Eph 5:26-33
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    26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

    27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

    28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

    29 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

    30 because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

    31 "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."

    32 This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

    33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

  • Eph 5:21-24
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    21 subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

    22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

    23 For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

    24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

  • Col 3:18-19
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    18 Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

    19 Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.

  • 1 Cor 7:2-5
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    2 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

    3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

    4 The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.

    5 Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

  • Eph 5:1-2
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    1 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

    2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

  • 1 Pet 3:5
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    5 For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

  • 1 Pet 3:7-8
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    7 You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

    8 Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

  • 1 Pet 3:1
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    1 In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

  • Matt 19:5-6
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    5 and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'

    6 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."

  • Titus 2:4-5
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    4 that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5 to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.

  • Gen 2:24
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    24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 11:3
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    3 But I would have you know 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 a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

  • 1 Cor 7:33
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    33 but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:16
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    16 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

  • Eph 6:5
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    5 Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

  • 1 Cor 7:13-14
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    13 The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

    14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

  • 2 Cor 11:2
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    2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

  • 1 Tim 3:5
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    5 (but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

  • Eph 1:22
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    22 He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

  • Deut 24:1
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    1 When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

  • Eph 4:15
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    15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29 But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

  • Prov 5:18
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    18 Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

  • 1 Cor 7:10
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    10 But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband

  • 1 Thess 5:25
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    25 Brothers, pray for us.

  • John 15:12
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    12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

  • Rom 5:8
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    8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

  • Rom 7:2
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    2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

  • 1 Tim 3:11
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    11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

  • 1 Cor 7:39
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    39 A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.