Ephesians 5:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

Common English Bible

²⁵ As for husbands, love your wives just like Christ loved the church and gave himself for her.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ 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

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it:

Ephesians 5:25 Cross References

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Genesis 24:67

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

2 Samuel 12:3

but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb that he had bought. He brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children; it used to eat of his meager fare and drink from his cup and lie in his bosom, and it was like a daughter to him.

Song of Solomon 1:11

We will make you ornaments of gold, studded with silver.

Matthew 20:28

just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many.”

John 6:51

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

Acts 20:28

Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.

Galatians 1:4

who gave himself for our sins to set us free from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

Galatians 2:20

and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Ephesians 5:2

and walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 5:24

Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands.

Ephesians 5:28

In the same way, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Ephesians 5:33

Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband.

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly.

1 Timothy 2:6

who gave himself a ransom for all —this was attested at the right time.

1 Peter 3:7

Husbands, in the same way, show consideration for your wives in your life together, paying honor to the woman—though the weaker vessel, they are joint heirs of the gracious gift of life—so that nothing may hinder your prayers.

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 freed us from our sins by his blood

Revelation 5:9

They sing a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to break its seals, for you were slaughtered and by your blood you ransomed for God saints from every tribe and language and people and nation;