Ephesians 5:25

Modern English Version

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it,

Cross References

1 Peter 3:7

Likewise, you husbands, live considerately with your wives, giving honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they too are also heirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be bitter toward them.

Ephesians 5:28

In this way men ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Ephesians 5:33

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Ephesians 5:2

Walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave Himself for us as a fragrant offering and a sacrifice to God.

Galatians 1:4

who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in my body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Revelation 5:9

And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals; for You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

Genesis 24:67

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

Matthew 20:28

even as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

Acts 20:28

Therefore take heed to yourselves and to the entire flock, over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

John 6:51

I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. The bread which I shall give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

2 Samuel 12:3

but the poor man had nothing except a single small ewe lamb that he had acquired. He nourished it and raised it together with himself and his sons. From his crumbs, it would eat; from his cup, it would drink; and in his arms it would lie. It was like a daughter to him.

1 Timothy 2:6

who gave Himself as a ransom for all. This was the testimony given at the proper time.

Ephesians 5:24

But as the church submits to Christ, so also let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

Song of Solomon 1:11

We will fashion pendants of gold for you with beads of silver.