Ephesians 5

Ephesians 5

A fragment showing Ephesians 4:16-29 on recto side of Papyrus 49 from the third century.
Book Epistle to the Ephesians
Bible part New Testament
Order in the Bible part 10
Category Pauline epistles

Ephesians 5 is the fifth chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul of Tarsus.[1][2]

Text

Structure

This chapter can be grouped (with cross references to other parts of the Bible):

Cross reference

Verse 22

New King James Version

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.[3]

Verse 25

New King James Version

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,[4]

Verse 28

New King James Version

So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.[5]

It is a common saying with the Jews, that a man's wife is (wpwgk), "as his own body";[6] and it is one of the precepts of their wise men, that a man should honour his wife more than his body, (wpwgk hbhaw), and "love her as his body";[7] for as they also say, they are but one body;[8] the apostle seems to speak in the language of his countrymen; however, his doctrine and theirs agree in this point: wherefore[9]

because she is one body and flesh with him.[9]

See also

References

  1. Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an abbreviated Bible commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.
  2. Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
  3. Ephesians 5:22
  4. Ephesians 5:25
  5. Ephesians 5:28
  6. T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 24. 1. & Becorot, fol. 35. 2. Maimon. Hilchot Becorot, c. 2. sect. 17. Tzeror Hammor, fol. 18. 2
  7. T. Bab. Yebamot, fol. 62. 2. & Sanhedrin, fol. 76. 2. Derech Eretz, fol. 17. 4. Maimon Hilchot Ishot, c. 15. sect. 19.
  8. Tzeror Hammor, fol. 6. 3.
  9. 1 2 John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible, - Ephesians 5:28

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