Ephesians 5:25
New Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;"
Word-by-Word Analysis
בַּעַל
baʻal
a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)
אָהַב
ʼâhab
to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
Χριστός
Christós
anointed, i.e. the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus
אָהַב
ʼâhab
to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
ἐκκλησία
ekklēsía
a calling out, i.e. (concretely) a popular meeting, especially a religious congregation (Jewish synagogue, or Christian community of members on earth ...
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
Key Terms in This Verse
בַּעַל baʻal
a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)
Study H1167 →ἐκκλησία ekklēsía
a calling out, i.e. (concretely) a popular meeting, especially a religious congregation (Jewish synagogue, or Christian community of members on earth or saints in heaven or both)
Study G1577 →נָתַן nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
Study H5414 →נֶפֶשׁ nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Study H5315 →Cross References
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hinder...
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
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.
Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself fo...
And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and p...
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
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.
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own ...
I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
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