Ephesians 5:25

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Summary

Ephesians 5:25

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

Love

1 Peter 3:7

Loved

General references

Bible References

Love

Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

And Isaac took Rebekah into his tent and she became his wife; and in his love for her, Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

But the poor man had only one little she-lamb, which he had got and taken care of: from its birth it had been with him like one of his children; his meat was its food, and from his cup it took its drink, resting in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him.

Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

Husbands, have love for your wives, and be not bitter against them.

And you husbands, give thought to your way of life with your wives, giving honour to the woman who is the feebler vessel, but who has an equal part in the heritage of the grace of life; so that you may not be kept from prayer.

Loved

And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

Even as the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.

And he took bread and, having given praise, he gave it to them when it had been broken, saying, This is my body, which is given for you: do this in memory of me.

I am the living bread which has come from heaven: if any man takes this bread for food he will have life for ever: and more than this, the bread which I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world.

Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.

Who gave himself for our sins, so that he might make us free from this present evil world, after the purpose of our God and Father:

I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.

Who gave himself as an offering for all; witness of which was to be given at the right time;

Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,

And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;

And their voices are sounding in a new song, saying, It is right for you to take the book and to make it open: for you were put to death and have made an offering to God of your blood for men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation,

General references

And he put to death the burned offering; and Aaron's sons gave him the blood and he put some of it on and round the altar;

We will make you chains of gold with ornaments of silver.

His left hand is under my head, and his right hand is round about me.

You are all fair, my love; there is no mark on you.