Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her New Living Translation For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her English Standard Version Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, Berean Standard Bible Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her Berean Literal Bible Husbands, love the wives just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, King James Bible Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; New King James Version Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, New American Standard Bible Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, NASB 1995 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, NASB 1977 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her; Legacy Standard Bible Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, Amplified Bible Husbands, love your wives [seek the highest good for her and surround her with a caring, unselfish love], just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, Christian Standard Bible Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her Holman Christian Standard Bible Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her American Standard Version Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; Contemporary English Version A husband should love his wife as much as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it. English Revised Version Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; GOD'S WORD® Translation Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it. Good News Translation Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it. International Standard Version Husbands, love your wives as the Messiah loved the church and gave himself for it, Majority Standard Bible Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her NET Bible Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her New Heart English Bible Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; Webster's Bible Translation Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; Weymouth New Testament Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her; World English Bible Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her, Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionThe husbands: love your own wives, as the Christ also loved the Assembly, and gave Himself for it, Berean Literal Bible Husbands, love the wives just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, Young's Literal Translation The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, Smith's Literal Translation Husbands, love your own wives, as also Christ loved the church, and delivered himself up for it; Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleHusbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it: Catholic Public Domain Version Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and handed himself over for her, New American Bible Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her New Revised Standard Version Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleHusbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved his church, and gave himself for it; Aramaic Bible in Plain English Husbands, love your wives, as The Messiah also loves his church and gave himself up for her sake, NT Translations Anderson New TestamentHusbands, love your wives, as the Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it, Godbey New Testament Husbands, love your wives with divine love, as Christ also loved the church with divine love, and gave himself for her; Haweis New Testament Husbands, love your own wives, as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; Mace New Testament You husband, love your spouse, even as Christ loved the church, and laid down his life for her: Weymouth New Testament Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her; Worrell New Testament Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the assembly, and delivered Himself up for it, Worsley New Testament Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave up Himself for it: Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Wives and Husbands…24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her 26to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,… Cross References Colossians 3:19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. 1 Peter 3:7 Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered. 1 John 3:16 By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. John 15:12-13 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. / Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. / It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. / Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. ... 1 John 4:10-11 And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. / Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. Romans 5:8 But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Philippians 2:5-8 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus: / Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, / but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness. ... 1 Corinthians 7:3 The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. Genesis 2:24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. Matthew 20:28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.” John 13:34 A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another. 1 John 3:18 Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth. 1 Corinthians 11:3 But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. Song of Solomon 8:6-7 Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all. / Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned. Treasury of Scripture Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; love. Ephesians 5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Genesis 24:67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death. loved. Ephesians 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. Luke 22:19,20 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me… Jump to Previous Assembly Christ Church Death Delivered Husbands Love Married WivesJump to Next Assembly Christ Church Death Delivered Husbands Love Married WivesEphesians 5 1. After general exhortations to love;3. to flee sexual immorality; 4. and all uncleanness; 7. not to converse with the wicked; 15. to walk carefully; 18. and to be filled with the Spirit; 22. he descends to the particular duties, how wives ought to obey their husbands; 25. and husbands ought to love their wives, 32. even as Christ does his church. Husbands The term "husbands" in this context refers to married men, specifically those who are in a covenant relationship with their wives. In the Greek, the word used is "ἀνδρές" (andres), which is a general term for men but is contextually understood here as husbands. This word sets the stage for a directive that is both specific and profound, calling men to a role of leadership and responsibility within the marriage. Historically, the role of a husband in the ancient world was often one of authority and provision, but Paul redefines this role in a Christ-centered way, emphasizing love and sacrifice over dominance. love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her And gave himself for it.--Here, as before, the antitype transcends the type. In the character of our Lord's sacrifice, as an atonement offered "for" the Church, and in the regenerating and cleansing effect of that sacrifice (see next verse), none can approach Him. The husband may be said to give himself for his wife, but it cannot be in any higher sense than as taking the chief share of the burden, and if possible the pain, of life for her. He may follow Christ in love, and in that alone. Compare St. Paul's words in Colossians 1:24, "I fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ for His body's sake, which is the Church" (where see Note). (25-27) In these verses we trace, under the nuptial metaphor, a clear description of the three great stages in salvation--justification in His "giving Himself for us, sanctification in the "cleansing by water in the Word," glorification in the final "presentation" to Christ in glory. The metaphor is certainly preserved in the last two clauses, which correspond to the bath of purification of the bride, and the festal presentation of her (usually by the friend of the bridegroom, John 3:29), in all her beauty and adornment, to her husband at his own home; perhaps even in the first also, for the husband used to give a dowry, which was held in the rude simplicity of ancient times to purchase his wife, and here that which Christ gives is the unspeakable price of His own Self. Throughout, in accordance with the whole tenor of the Epistle, it is the Church as a whole, not the individual soul, which is "the Spouse of Christ." Verse 25. - Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave himself for her. The husband's duty to the wife is enforced by another parallel - it ought to correspond to Christ's love for the Church. This parallel restores the balance; if it should seem hard for the wife to be in subjection, the spirit of love, Christ-like love, on the part of the husband makes the duty easy. Christ did not merely pity the Church, or merely desire her good, but loved her; her image was stamped on his heart and her name graven on his hands; he desired to have her for his companion, longing for a return of her affection, for the establishment of sympathy between her and him. And he gave himself for her (comp. ver. 2), showing that her happiness and welfare were dearer to him than his own - the true test of deep, real love.Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Husbands,ἄνδρες (andres) Noun - Vocative Masculine Plural Strong's 435: A male human being; a man, husband. A primary word; a man. love ἀγαπᾶτε (agapate) Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love. [your] τὰς (tas) Article - Accusative Feminine Plural Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. wives, γυναῖκας (gynaikas) Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural Strong's 1135: A woman, wife, my lady. Probably from the base of ginomai; a woman; specially, a wife. just καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. as καθὼς (kathōs) Adverb Strong's 2531: According to the manner in which, in the degree that, just as, as. From kata and hos; just as, that. Christ Χριστὸς (Christos) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 5547: Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus. loved ἠγάπησεν (ēgapēsen) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love. the τὴν (tēn) Article - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. church ἐκκλησίαν (ekklēsian) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 1577: From a compound of ek and a derivative of kaleo; a calling out, i.e. a popular meeting, especially a religious congregation. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. gave Himself up παρέδωκεν (paredōken) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 3860: From para and didomi; to surrender, i.e yield up, intrust, transmit. for ὑπὲρ (hyper) Preposition Strong's 5228: Gen: in behalf of; acc: above. her αὐτῆς (autēs) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Feminine 3rd Person Singular Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. 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