Ephesians 5:25

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

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  • Col 3:19 : 19 the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;
  • 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with `them', according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel -- to the wife -- imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.
  • Eph 5:28 : 28 so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,
  • Gen 2:24 : 24 therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.
  • Gal 1:4 : 4 who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,
  • Eph 5:33 : 33 but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.
  • Rev 1:5 : 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,
  • Gal 2:20 : 20 with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;
  • Prov 5:18-19 : 18 Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, 19 A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.
  • Matt 20:28 : 28 even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'
  • Luke 22:19-20 : 19 And having taken bread, having given thanks, he brake and gave to them, saying, `This is my body, that for you is being given, this do ye -- to remembrance of me.' 20 In like manner, also, the cup after the supping, saying, `This cup `is' the new covenant in my blood, that for you is being poured forth.
  • John 6:51 : 51 `I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live -- to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.'
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 `Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,
  • Gen 24:67 : 67 and Isaac bringeth her in unto the tent of Sarah his mother, and he taketh Rebekah, and she becometh his wife, and he loveth her, and Isaac is comforted after `the death of' his mother.
  • 2 Sam 12:3 : 3 And the poor one hath nothing, Except one little ewe-lamb, Which he hath bought, and keepeth alive, And it groweth up with him, And with his sons together; Of his morsel it eateth, And from his cup it drinketh, And in his bosom it lieth, And it is to him as a daughter;
  • Rev 5:9 : 9 and they sing a new song, saying, `Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,
  • 1 Tim 2:6 : 6 who did give himself a ransom for all -- the testimony in its own times --
  • 1 Pet 1:18-21 : 18 having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers, 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted -- Christ's -- 20 foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you, 21 who through him do believe in God, who did raise out of the dead, and glory to him did give, so that your faith and hope may be in God.

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    26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed `it' with the bathing of the water in the saying,

    27 that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

    28 so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

    29 for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

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

    31 `for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'

    32 this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

    33 but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.

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

    22 The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

    23 because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ `is' head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

    24 but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also `are' the wives to their own husbands in everything.

  • Col 3:18-19
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    18 The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

    19 the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

  • 1 Cor 7:2-5
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    2 and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

    3 to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

    4 the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

    5 Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

  • Eph 5:1-2
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    1 Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

    2 and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

  • 5 for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,

  • 1 Pet 3:7-8
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    7 The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with `them', according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel -- to the wife -- imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

    8 And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

  • 1 In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

  • Matt 19:5-6
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    5 and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh?

    6 so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

  • Titus 2:4-5
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    4 that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of `their' husbands, lovers of `their' children,

    5 sober, pure, keepers of `their own' houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

  • 24 therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

  • 3 and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

  • 7 on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,

  • 33 and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

  • 16 for what, hast thou known, O wife, whether the husband thou shalt save? or what, hast thou known, O husband, whether the wife thou shalt save?

  • 5 The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;

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    13 and a woman who hath a husband unbelieving, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not send him away;

    14 for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

  • 2 for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,

  • 5 (and if any one his own house `how' to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

  • 22 and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him -- head over all things to the assembly,

  • 1 `When a man doth take a wife, and hath married her, and it hath been, if she doth not find grace in his eyes (for he hath found in her nakedness of anything), and he hath written for her a writing of divorce, and given `it' into her hand, and sent her out of his house,

  • 15 and, being true in love, we may increase to Him `in' all things, who is the head -- the Christ;

  • 29 And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened -- that both those having wives may be as not having;

  • 18 Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

  • 10 and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband:

  • 25 Brethren, pray for us;

  • 12 `This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

  • 8 and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

  • 2 for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

  • 11 Women -- in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

  • 39 A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will -- only in the Lord;