Ephesians 5:27

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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;

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  • 2 Cor 11:2 : 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,
  • Eph 1:4 : 4 according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,
  • Col 1:22 : 22 in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,
  • Col 1:28 : 28 whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus,
  • Song 4:7 : 7 Thou `art' all fair, my friend, And a blemish there is not in thee. Come from Lebanon, O spouse,
  • 1 Pet 1:19 : 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted -- Christ's --
  • 2 Pet 3:14 : 14 wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,
  • Jude 1:24 : 24 And to Him who is able to guard you not stumbling, and to set `you' in the presence of His glory unblemished, in gladness,
  • Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
  • 2 Cor 4:14 : 14 knowing that He who did raise up the Lord Jesus, us also through Jesus shall raise up, and shall present with you,
  • Heb 12:22-24 : 22 But, ye came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers, 23 to the company and assembly of the first-born in heaven enrolled, and to God the judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men made perfect, 24 and to a mediator of a new covenant -- Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!
  • Ps 45:13 : 13 All glory `is' the daughter of the king within, Of gold-embroidered work `is' her clothing.
  • Ps 87:3 : 3 Honourable things are spoken in Thee, O city of God. Selah.
  • Rev 7:9-9 : 9 After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands, 10 and crying with a great voice, saying, `The salvation `is' to Him who is sitting upon the throne -- to our God, and to the Lamb!' 11 And all the messengers stood around the throne, and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell upon their face, and bowed before God, 12 saying, `Amen! the blessing, and the glory, and the wisdom, and the thanksgiving, and the honour, and the power, and the strength, `are' to our God -- to the ages of the ages! Amen!' 13 And answer did one of the elders, saying to me, `These, who have been arrayed with the white robes -- who are they, and whence came they?' 14 and I have said to him, `Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, `These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb; 15 because of this are they before the throne of God, and they do service to Him day and night in His sanctuary, and He who is sitting upon the throne shall tabernacle over them; 16 they shall not hunger any more, nor may the sun fall upon them, nor any heat, 17 because the Lamb that `is' in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and wipe away shall God every tear from their eyes.'
  • Rev 21:10-27 : 10 and he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and did shew to me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God, 11 having the glory of God, and her light `is' like a stone most precious, as a jasper stone clear as crystal, 12 having also a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve messengers, and names written thereon, which are `those' of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel, 13 at the east three gates, at the north three gates, at the south three gates, at the west three gates; 14 and the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15 And he who is speaking with me had a golden reed, that he may measure the city, and its gates, and its wall; 16 and the city lieth square, and the length of it is as great as the breadth; and he did measure the city with the reed -- furlongs twelve thousand; the length, and the breadth, and the height, of it are equal; 17 and he measured its wall, an hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, that is, of the messenger; 18 and the building of its wall was jasper, and the city `is' pure gold -- like to pure glass; 19 and the foundations of the wall of the city with every precious stone have been adorned; the first foundation jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; 20 the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. 21 And the twelve gates `are' twelve pearls, each several one of the gates was of one pearl; and the broad-place of the city `is' pure gold -- as transparent glass. 22 And a sanctuary I did not see in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, is its sanctuary, and the Lamb, 23 and the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they may shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp of it `is' the Lamb; 24 and the nations of the saved in its light shall walk, and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it, 25 and its gates shall not at all be shut by day, for night shall not be there; 26 and they shall bring the glory and the honour of the nations into it; 27 and there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling and doing abomination, and a lie, but -- those written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb.
  • Jude 1:21 : 21 yourselves in the love of God keep ye, waiting for the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ -- to life age-during;
  • Isa 60:15-20 : 15 Instead of thy being forsaken and hated, And none passing through, I have made thee for an excellency age-during, A joy of generation and generation. 16 And thou hast sucked the milk of nations, Yea, the breast of kings thou suckest, And thou hast known that I, Jehovah, Thy Saviour, and Thy Redeemer, `Am' the Mighty One of Jacob. 17 Instead of the brass I bring in gold, And instead of the iron I bring in silver, And instead of the wood brass, And instead of the stone iron, And I have made thy inspection peace, And thy exactors righteousness. 18 Violence is not heard any more in thy land, Spoiling and destruction in thy borders, And thou hast called `Salvation' thy walls, And thy gates, `Praise.' 19 To thee no more is the sun for a light by day, And for brightness the moon giveth not light to thee, And Jehovah hath become to thee A light age-during, and thy God thy beauty. 20 Thy sun goeth no more in, And thy moon is not removed, For Jehovah becometh to thee a light age-during. And the days of thy mourning have been completed.
  • Isa 62:3 : 3 And thou hast been a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah, And a diadem of royalty in the hand of thy God,
  • Jer 33:9 : 9 And it hath been to Me for a name of joy, For praise, and for beauty, to all nations of the earth, Who hear of all the good that I am doing them, And they have feared, And they have trembled for all the good, And for all the peace, that I am doing to it.
  • 1 Thess 5:23 : 23 and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;

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  • Eph 5:22-26
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    22The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

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

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

    25The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

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

  • Eph 5:28-33
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    28so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

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

    30because 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;'

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

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

  • 22in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,

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

  • 14wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,

  • 7may we rejoice and exult, and give the glory to Him, because come did the marriage of the Lamb, and his wife did make herself ready;

  • Titus 1:6-7
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    6if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --

    7for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

  • 14that thou keep the command unspotted, unblameable, till the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • 4according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

  • 35And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,

  • 14who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

  • 14for 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.

  • Eph 5:2-3
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    2and 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,

    3and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

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

  • 7and these things charge, that they may be blameless;

  • 24And to Him who is able to guard you not stumbling, and to set `you' in the presence of His glory unblemished, in gladness,

  • 19but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted -- Christ's --

  • 1Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;

  • 2it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

  • 1 Cor 7:2-4
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    2and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

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

    4the 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.

  • 32And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;

  • 23which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the all in all,

  • 4honourable `is' the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

  • 13to the establishing your hearts blameless in sanctification before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

  • 5and 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?

  • 10that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly `places', through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,

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

  • 15Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make `them' members of an harlot? let it be not!

  • 29that no flesh may glory before Him;

  • 21to Him `is' the glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus, to all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen.

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

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

  • 23and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;

  • 4that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,

  • 21if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master -- to every good work having been prepared,

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

  • 5and in their mouth there was not found guile, for unblemished are they before the throne of God.