Ephesians 5:25

James Moffatt - New Testament

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

Cross References

1 Peter 3:7

In the same way you husbands must be considerate in living with your wives, since they are the weaker sex; you must honour them as heirs equally with yourselves of the grace of Life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives, do not be harsh to them.

Ephesians 5:28

So ought husbands to love their wives — to love them as their own bodies (he who loves his wife loves himself).

Ephesians 5:33

However, let every man of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife reverence her husband.

Ephesians 5:2

and lead lives of love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself up for you to be a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Galatians 1:4

who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil world — by the will of our God and Father,

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood —

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

Revelation 5:9

singing a new song: "Thou deservest to take the scroll and open its seals, for thou wast slain and by shedding thy blood hast ransomed for God men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation;

Matthew 20:28

just as the Son of man has not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

Acts 20:28

Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock of which the holy Spirit has appointed you guardians; shepherd the church of the Lord which he has purchased with his own blood.

John 6:51

I am the living bread which has come down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and more, the bread I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world."

1 Timothy 2:6

the man Christ Jesus who gave himself as a ransom for all": — in due time this was attested,

Ephesians 5:24

as the church is subject to Christ, so wives are to be subject to their husbands in every respect.