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Ephesians 5:25 KJV
Ephesians · chapter 5 · verse 25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;Ephesians 5:25 · King James Version
What Ephesians 5:25 means
The standard is in the second half and it does not negotiate down. Christ loved the church and gave himself for it, so the measure is a death. Whatever a husband thinks he is being asked for here, Paul has already named something costlier.
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Ephesians 5:25 in context
23For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
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Key words (Strong's)
- Husbandsanērwith reference to sex, of a male, of a husband, of a betrothed or future husband, with…G435 →
- himselfheautouhimself, herself, itself, themselvesG1438 →
- ChristchristosChrist = " anointed" , Christ was [and is], anointedG5547 →
- churchekklēsiaa gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place, an assembly…G1577 →
- wivesgynēa woman of any age, whether a virgin, or married, or a widow, a wife, of a betrothed womanG1135 →
- loveagapaōof persons, to welcome, to entertain, to be fond of, to love dearly, of things, to be…G25 →
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Here the apostle begins his exhortation to the discharge of relative duties. As a general foundation for these duties, he lays down that rule Eph 5:21.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 21-33