Ephesians 5:25
Good News Translation
Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.

New Revised Standard Version
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Contemporary English Version
A husband should love his wife as much as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.

New American Bible
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her

Douay-Rheims Bible
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and delivered himself up for it:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and delivered himself up for it:

love.

Ephesians 5:28 So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Genesis 2:24 Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.

Genesis 24:67 Who brought her into the tent of Sara his mother, and took her to wife: and he loved her so much, that it moderated the sorrow which was occasioned by his mother's death.

2 Samuel 12:3 But the poor man had nothing at all but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up, and which had grown up in his house together with his children, eating of his bread, and drinking of his cup, and sleeping in his bosom: and it was unto him as a daughter.

Proverbs 5:18,19 Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times: be thou delighted continually with her love. . . .

Colossians 3:19 Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter towards them.

1 Peter 3:7 Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.

loved.

Ephesians 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness.

Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his life a redemption for many.

Luke 22:19,20 And taking bread, he gave thanks and brake and gave to them, saying: This is my body, which is given for you. Do this for a commemoration of me. . . .

John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. [52] If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.

Acts 20:28 Take heed to yourselves and to the whole flock, wherein the Holy Ghost hath placed you bishops, to rule the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Galatians 1:4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present wicked world, according to the will of God and our Father:

Galatians 2:20 And I live, now not I: but Christ liveth in me. And that I live now in the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and delivered himself for me.

1 Timothy 2:6 Who gave himself a redemption for all, a testimony in due times.

1 Peter 1:18-21 Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers: . . .

Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth, who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood

Revelation 5:9 And they sung a new canticle, saying: Thou art worthy, O Lord, to take the book and to open the seals thereof: because thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God, in thy blood, out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation:

Context
Wives and Husbands
24Therefore as the church is subject to Christ: so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things. 25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and delivered himself up for it: 26That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life:…
Cross References
Ephesians 5:2
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness.

Ephesians 5:24
Therefore as the church is subject to Christ: so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things.

Ephesians 5:28
So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular love for his wife as himself: And let the wife fear her husband.

Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter towards them.

1 Peter 3:7
Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.

Ephesians 5:24
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