Ephesians 5:28-33
1599 Geneva Bible
28 [a]So ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies: he that loveth his wife, loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his [b]own flesh, but nourished and cherisheth it, even as the Lord doth the Church.
30 For we are members of his body, [c]of his flesh, and of his bones.
31 (A)For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall [d]cleave to his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh.
32 [e]This is a great secret, but I speak concerning Christ, and concerning the Church.
33 [f]Therefore everyone of you, do ye so: let everyone love his wife, even as himself, and let the wife see that she fear her husband.
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- Ephesians 5:28 Another argument: Every man loveth himself, even of nature: therefore he striveth against nature that loveth not his wife: he proveth the consequent, first by the mystical knitting of Christ and the Church together, and then by the ordinance of God, who saith, that man and wife are as one, that is, not to be divided.
- Ephesians 5:29 His own body.
- Ephesians 5:30 He alludeth to the making of the woman, which signifieth our coupling together with Christ, which is wrought by faith, but is sealed by the Sacrament of the Supper.
- Ephesians 5:31 See Matt. 19:5
- Ephesians 5:32 That no man might dream of natural conjunction or knitting of Christ and his Church together (such as the husbands and the wives is) he showeth that it is secret, to wit, spiritual and such as far differeth from the common capacity of man: as which consisteth by the virtue of the Spirit, and not of the flesh by faith, and by no natural band.
- Ephesians 5:33 The conclusion both of the husband’s duty toward his wife, and of the wife’s toward her husband.
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