Ephesians 5:25

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

Cross References

1 Peter 3:7

Husbands, be understanding of your wives. Treat them with respect, remembering the ways in which they’re physically weaker than you. Honor them as people who will share the gracious gift of life with you. Otherwise, God won’t answer your prayers.

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives and don’t be mean to them.

Ephesians 5:28

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

Ephesians 5:33

But the point remains that a husband must also love his wife, just as he loves himself, and a wife must respect her husband.

Ephesians 5:2

and follow the path of love. That’s what Christ did. He loved us and gave himself up for us as a sweet-smelling offering and sacrifice to God.

Galatians 1:4

Jesus gave his life for our sins. He did this to set us free from the evil age we’re now living in.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first to rise from the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. Jesus loves us and has set us free from our sins by his blood.

Galatians 2:20

I’ve been crucified with Christ. I’m not the one living anymore. Christ is living in me. I do continue to live in this body, but I do that by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Revelation 5:9

They sang a new song that said, “You are worthy to take the scroll and break open its seals, because you were put to death, and you bought people for God with your blood. They come from every tribe, language, race, and nation.

Matthew 20:28

Be like the Son of Man, who didn’t come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life to set people free.”

Acts 20:28

Keep watch over yourselves and all the believers that the Holy Spirit has made you leaders over. Be shepherds of God’s church, which he bought with his own blood.

John 6:51

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

1 Timothy 2:6

who gave himself to pay for the sins of all people. We’ve been given this message at just the right time.

Ephesians 5:24

The church follows the lead of Christ, and in the same way, wives should follow the lead of their husbands in everything.