Ephesians 5:25

In 9 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her,

ASV

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

LSV

The husbands: love your own wives, as the Christ also loved the Assembly, and gave Himself for it,

YLT

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

DBY

Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,

DRC

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it:

GNV

Husbands, loue your wiues, euen as Christ loued the Church, and gaue himselfe for it,

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

Οἱ ἄνδρες, ἀγαπᾶτε τὰς γυναῖκας, καθὼς καὶ ὁ Χριστὸς ἠγάπησεν τὴν ἐκκλησίαν καὶ ἑαυτὸν παρέδωκεν ὑπὲρ αὐτῆς,

RP2018

Οἱ ἄνδρες, ἀγαπᾶτε τὰς γυναῖκας ἑαυτῶν, καθὼς καὶ ὁ χριστὸς ἠγάπησεν τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, καὶ ἑαυτὸν παρέδωκεν ὑπὲρ αὐτῆς·

TR-Boyd

Οἱ ἄνδρες, ἀγαπᾶτε τὰς γυναῖκας ἑαυτῶν, καθὼς καὶ ὁ Χριστὸς ἠγάπησε τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, καὶ ἑαυτὸν παρέδωκεν ὑπὲρ αὐτῆς·

SCR1894

οι ανδρες αγαπατε τας γυναικας εαυτων καθως και ο χριστος ηγαπησεν την εκκλησιαν και εαυτον παρεδωκεν υπερ αυτης

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• 1 Peter 3:7Husbands, 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.
• Colossians 3:19Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
• Ephesians 5:28In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
• Genesis 2:24For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
• Ephesians 5:33Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
• Ephesians 5:2and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
• Galatians 1:4who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
• Revelation 5:9And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
• Galatians 2:20I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
• Revelation 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,
• Matthew 20:28just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
• Proverbs 5:18–19May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth: A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
• Genesis 24:67And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.
• Acts 20:28Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
• 1 Peter 1:18–21For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without…
• 2 Samuel 12:3but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter…

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