Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her

International Standard Version

Husbands, love your wives as the Messiah loved the church and gave himself for it,

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

Husbands, love your wives [seek the highest good for her and surround her with a caring, unselfish love], just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

An Understandable Version

Husbands, you should love your wives just as Christ also loved the church, and gave up His life for her,

Anderson New Testament

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

Bible in Basic English

Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;

Common New Testament

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

Daniel Mace New Testament

You husband, love your spouse, even as Christ loved the church, and laid down his life for her:

Darby Translation

Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,

Godbey New Testament

Husbands, love your wives with divine love, as Christ also loved the church with divine love, and gave himself for her;

Goodspeed New Testament

You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her,

John Wesley New Testament

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

Julia Smith Translation

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

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for her;

Modern King James verseion

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Husbands: love your wives, even as Christ loved the congregation, and gave himself for it,

Moffatt New Testament

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

Montgomery New Testament

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her,

NET Bible

Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her

New Heart English Bible

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

Noyes New Testament

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

Sawyer New Testament

Husbands, love your wives as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it,

The Emphasized Bible

Ye husbands, be loving your wives, even as, the Christ also, loved the assembly, and delivered, himself, up in her behalf,

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Husbands, love your own wives, as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Twentieth Century New Testament

Husbands, love your wives, just as the Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for her,

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her;

Williams New Testament

You married men must love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her,

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the assembly, and delivered Himself up for it,

Worsley New Testament

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave up Himself for it:

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἀνήρ 
Aner 
man, husband, sir, fellow, not tr
Usage: 198

G25
ἀγαπάω 
Agapao 
Usage: 92

ἑαυτοῦ 
heautou 
Usage: 249

γυνή 
Gune 
Usage: 187

even as
καθώς 
Kathos 
as, even as, according as, when, according to, how, as well as
Usage: 141

Χριστός 
christos 
Usage: 557


and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

G25
ἀγαπάω 
Agapao 
Usage: 92

the church
ἐκκλησία 
Ekklesia 
Usage: 93

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

παραδίδωμι 
Paradidomi 
Usage: 75

ἑαυτοῦ 
heautou 
Usage: 249

for
ὑπέρ 
Huper 
Usage: 138

Devotionals

Devotionals about Ephesians 5:25

Devotionals containing Ephesians 5:25

Images Ephesians 5:25

Prayers for Ephesians 5:25

Context Readings

Husbands And Wives

24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,



Cross References

Ephesians 5:28

So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.

1 Peter 3:7

You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

Ephesians 5:2

and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.

Genesis 2:24

For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

Matthew 20:28

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

Revelation 1:5

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 released us from our sins by His blood—

Genesis 24:67

Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her; thus Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

2 Samuel 12:3

“But the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb
Which he bought and nourished;
And it grew up together with him and his children.
It would eat of his bread and drink of his cup and lie in his bosom,
And was like a daughter to him.

Proverbs 5:18-19

Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Luke 22:19-20

And when He had taken some bread and given thanks, He broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

John 6:51

I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

Acts 20:28

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

Galatians 1:4

who gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the 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.

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.

1 Timothy 2:6

who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time.

1 Peter 1:18-21

knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers,

Revelation 5:9

And they *sang a new song, saying, Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

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