Ephesians 5:25-34: Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.

Follow God's example, (A) therefore, as dearly loved children (B) 2 and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us (C) and gave himself up for us.

Ephesians 5:25-34: Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water.

Paul sees Christian marriage as taking on a new meaning symbolic of the intimate relationship of love between Christ and the church.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Ephesians 5:25-33 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with ...

New International Version However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

25, 33husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and ...

Each husband is to love his own wife the same as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.