Ephesians 5:27

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Summary

That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

He

Glorious

Not

But

General references

Bible References

He

knowing that He who did raise up the Lord Jesus, us also through Jesus shall raise up, and shall present with you,

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,

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

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

Glorious

All glory is the daughter of the king within, Of gold-embroidered work is her clothing.

Honourable things are spoken in Thee, O city of God. Selah.

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.

And thou hast been a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah, And a diadem of royalty in the hand of thy God,

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.

But, ye came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,

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,

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,

Not

Thou art all fair, my friend, And a blemish there is not in thee. Come from Lebanon, O spouse,

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?

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

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

But

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

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,

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

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;

yourselves in the love of God keep ye, waiting for the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ -- to life age-during;

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.

General references

And he slaughtereth the burnt-offering, and the sons of Aaron have presented unto him the blood, and he sprinkleth it on the altar round about;

'And the priest who is cleansing hath caused the man who is to be cleansed to stand with them before Jehovah, at the opening of the tent of meeting,

at your pleasure a perfect one, a male of the herd, of the sheep or of the goats;

Garlands of gold we do make for thee, With studs of silver!

His left hand is under my head, And his right doth embrace me.

Thou art all fair, my friend, And a blemish there is not in thee. Come from Lebanon, O spouse,