This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.
Ephesians 5:25 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her, American Standard Version (1901) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; Common English Bible As for husbands, love your wives just like Christ loved the church and gave himself for her. Catholic Public Domain Version Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and handed himself over for her, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it: |
This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.
And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah to be his wife. Isaac loved her, and he was comforted after his mother’s death.
but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised her, and she grew up with him and with his children. From his meagre food she would eat, from his cup she would drink, and in his arms she would sleep. She was like a daughter to him.
just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.’
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live for ever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.’
Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood.
who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything.
In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.
who gave himself as a ransom for all, a testimony at the proper time.
Husbands, in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with a weaker partner, showing them honour as co-heirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has set us free from our sins by his blood,
And they sang a new song: You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slaughtered, and you purchased people for God by your blood from every tribe and language and people and nation.