Ephesians 5:25

Husbands are commanded to love their wives sacrificially, as Christ loved the church and died for it. The husband's role is costly, self-giving love.

Cross-references · 19

• 1 Pet 3:7You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
• Col 3:19Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
• Eph 5:28Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
• Gen 2:24Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
• Eph 5:33Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
• Eph 5:2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
• Gal 1:4who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father —
• Gal 2:20I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
• Rev 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;
• Matt 20:28even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
• Prov 5:18–19Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
• Rev 5:9They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
• Gen 24:67Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
• Acts 20:28Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
• 1 Tim 2:6who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;
• 1 Pet 1:18–21knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
• John 6:51I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
• Luke 22:19–20He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me.”
• 2 Sam 12:3but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was like a daughter to him.

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