Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
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Gill's Exposition
That he might present it to himself a glorious church,.... There is a presentation of the church by Christ to his Father at his death, when he gathered the elect together in one, brought them nigh,…
Barnes' Notes
Husbands, love your wives - The duty of the wife is to obey; the right of the husband is to command. But the apostle would guard against the abuse of that right by enjoining the manifestation of such…
Adam Clarke
Husbands, love your wives - Here is a grand rule, according to which every husband is called to act: Love your wife as Christ loved the Church. But how did Christ love the Church? He gave himself for…
Here the apostle begins his exhortation to the discharge of relative duties. As a general foundation for these duties, he lays down that rule Eph 5:21. There is a mutual submission that Christians owe…
Cambridge Bible
Husbands Here the instruction is equally precise and more full. Cp. 1Pe 3:7.
love "in deed and in truth" (1Jn 3:18), "giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel" (1 Pet., quoted above).…
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