Ephesians 5:25

New Century Version

Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

So a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one body.

Genesis 24:67

Then Isaac brought Rebekah into the tent of Sarah, his mother, and she became his wife. Isaac loved her very much, and so he was comforted after his mother’s death.

2 Samuel 12:3

But the poor man had nothing except one little female lamb he had bought. The poor man fed the lamb, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup and slept in his arms. The lamb was like a daughter to him.

Song of Solomon 1:11

We will make for you gold earrings with silver hooks.

Matthew 20:28

In the same way, the Son of Man did not come to be served. He came to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many people.”

John 6:51

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give up so that the world may have life.”

Acts 20:28

Be careful for yourselves and for all the people the Holy Spirit has given to you to oversee. You must be like shepherds to the church of God, which he bought with the death of his own son.

Galatians 1:4

Jesus gave himself for our sins to free us from this evil world we live in, as God the Father planned.

Galatians 2:20

I was put to death on the cross with Christ, and I do not live anymore—it is Christ who lives in me. I still live in my body, but I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself to save me.

Ephesians 5:2

Live a life of love just as Christ loved us and gave himself for us as a sweet-smelling offering and sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 5:24

As the church yields to Christ, so you wives should yield to your husbands in everything.

Ephesians 5:28

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

Ephesians 5:33

But each one of you must love his wife as he loves himself, and a wife must respect her husband.

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives and be gentle with them.

1 Timothy 2:6

He gave himself as a payment to free all people. He is proof that came at the right time.

1 Peter 3:7

In the same way, you husbands should live with your wives in an understanding way, since they are weaker than you. But show them respect, because God gives them the same blessing he gives you—the grace that gives true life. Do this so that nothing will stop your prayers.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ. Jesus is the faithful witness, the first among those raised from the dead. He is the ruler of the kings of the earth. He is the One who loves us, who made us free from our sins with the blood of his death.

Revelation 5:9

And they all sang a new song to the Lamb: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were killed, and with the blood of your death you bought people for God from every tribe, language, people, and nation.