Holy Bible, The New Living Translation
Book of Ephesians
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Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 5:21 DSN -> Synopsis on 5:21 GEB -> Study Notes on 5:21 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:21 JFB -> Commentary on 5:21 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:21 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:21 PNT -> Commentary on 5:21 RWP -> Study Notes on 5:21 TSK -> Commentary on 5:21 TSK -> Entry for 5:21 WEN -> Notes on 5:21 NTB -> Commandments; Fear Of God; Humility EBD -> Ephesians, Epistle to; Fear of the Lord the PWP -> Devotional using 5:21 TV -> Devotional using 5:21 TV -> Devotional using 5:21 TV -> Devotional using 5:21 5:21 - [In Context] And further, you will submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 5:22 DSN -> Synopsis on 5:22 GEB -> Study Notes on 5:22 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:22 JFB -> Commentary on 5:22 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:22 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:22 PNT -> Commentary on 5:22 RWP -> Study Notes on 5:22 TSK -> Commentary on 5:22 TSK -> Entry for 5:22 WEN -> Notes on 5:22 NTB -> Church; Husband; Wife TTT -> Wives EBD -> Ephesians, Epistle to; Marriage; Wife SBD -> Marriage 5:22 - [In Context] You wives will submit to your husbands as you do to the Lord.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 5:23 DSN -> Synopsis on 5:23 GEB -> Study Notes on 5:23 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:23 JFB -> Commentary on 5:23 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:23 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:23 PNT -> Commentary on 5:23 RWP -> Study Notes on 5:23 SRN -> Study Notes on 5:23 TSK -> Commentary on 5:23 TSK -> Entry for 5:23 WEN -> Notes on 5:23 NTB -> Church; Husband; Jesus, The Christ (continued); Wife TTT -> Christ, the Head of the Church; Church, The; Husbands; Marriage; Salvation; Titles and Names of Christ EBD -> Church; Ephesians, Epistle to; Marriage; Solomon, Song of; Wife 5:23 - [In Context] For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of his body, the church; he gave his life to be her Savior.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 5:24 DSN -> Synopsis on 5:24 GEB -> Study Notes on 5:24 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:24 JFB -> Commentary on 5:24 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:24 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:24 PNT -> Commentary on 5:24 RWP -> Study Notes on 5:24 TSK -> Commentary on 5:24 TSK -> Entry for 5:24 WEN -> Notes on 5:24 NTB -> Church; Husband; Wife TTT -> Church, The; Love of Christ, The; Marriage; Wives EBD -> Ephesians, Epistle to; Marriage; Wife 5:24 - [In Context] As the church submits to Christ, so you wives must submit to your husbands in everything.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 5:25 DSN -> Synopsis on 5:25 GEB -> Study Notes on 5:25 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:25 JFB -> Commentary on 5:25 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:25 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:25 PNT -> Commentary on 5:25 RWP -> Study Notes on 5:25 SRN -> Study Notes on 5:25 TSK -> Commentary on 5:25 TSK -> Entry for 5:25 WEN -> Notes on 5:25 NTB -> Atonement; Church; Husband; Jesus, The Christ; Jesus, The Christ (continued); Sanctification; Suffering; Wife TTT -> Atonement, The; Christ is God; Church, The; Holiness; Husbands; Love to Man; Union With Christ EBD -> Church; Ephesians, Epistle to; Marriage; Wife PWP -> Devotional using 5:25 SPG -> Devotional using 5:25 TV -> Devotional using 5:25 TV -> Devotional using 5:25 TV -> Devotional using 5:25 5:25 - [In Context] And you husbands must love your wives with the same love Christ showed the church. He gave up his life for her
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 5:26 DSN -> Synopsis on 5:26 GEB -> Study Notes on 5:26 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:26 JFB -> Commentary on 5:26 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:26 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:26 PNT -> Commentary on 5:26 RWP -> Study Notes on 5:26 TSK -> Commentary on 5:26 TSK -> Entry for 5:26 WEN -> Notes on 5:26 NTB -> Ablution; Baptism; Church; Husband; Jesus, The Christ; Jesus, The Christ (continued); Sanctification; Symbols And Similitudes; Types; Washing; Word Of God TTT -> Atonement, The; Baptism with the Holy Spirit; Christ is God; Church, The; Emblems of the Holy Spirit, The; Excellency and Glory of the Church, The; Holiness; Husbands; Laver of Brass; Purifications or Baptisms; Sanctification; Scriptures, The; Types of Christ; Union With Christ; Water EBD -> Ephesians, Epistle to; Marriage; Wife PWP -> Devotional using 5:26 TV -> Devotional using 5:26 TV -> Devotional using 5:26 TV -> Devotional using 5:26 5:26 - [In Context] to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and God's word. F10
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 5:27 DSN -> Synopsis on 5:27 GEB -> Study Notes on 5:27 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:27 JFB -> Commentary on 5:27 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:27 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:27 PNT -> Commentary on 5:27 RWP -> Study Notes on 5:27 TSK -> Commentary on 5:27 TSK -> Entry for 5:27 WEN -> Notes on 5:27 NTB -> Blemish; Blessing; Church; Husband; Jesus, The Christ; Sanctification; Types TTT -> Atonement, The; Christ is God; Church, The; Excellency and Glory of the Church, The; Holiness; Husbands; Sanctification; Types of Christ; Union With Christ EBD -> Blemish; Church; Ephesians, Epistle to; Marriage; Solomon, Song of; Wife PWP -> Devotional using 5:27 5:27 - [In Context] He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 5:28 DSN -> Synopsis on 5:28 GEB -> Study Notes on 5:28 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:28 JFB -> Commentary on 5:28 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:28 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:28 PNT -> Commentary on 5:28 RWP -> Study Notes on 5:28 TSK -> Commentary on 5:28 TSK -> Entry for 5:28 WEN -> Notes on 5:28 NTB -> Church; Husband; Wife TTT -> Christ is God; Husbands; Union With Christ EBD -> Ephesians, Epistle to; Marriage; Wife PWP -> Devotional using 5:28 5:28 - [In Context] In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man is actually loving himself when he loves his wife.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 5:29 DSN -> Synopsis on 5:29 GEB -> Study Notes on 5:29 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:29 JFB -> Commentary on 5:29 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:29 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:29 PNT -> Commentary on 5:29 RWP -> Study Notes on 5:29 TSK -> Commentary on 5:29 TSK -> Entry for 5:29 WEN -> Notes on 5:29 NTB -> Church; Husband; Jesus, The Christ (continued) TTT -> Christ is God; Husbands; Union With Christ EBD -> Church; Ephesians, Epistle to; Marriage; Solomon, Song of; Wife PWP -> Devotional using 5:29 5:29 - [In Context] No one hates his own body but lovingly cares for it, just as Christ cares for his body, which is the church.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 5:30 DSN -> Synopsis on 5:30 GEB -> Study Notes on 5:30 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:30 JFB -> Commentary on 5:30 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:30 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:30 PNT -> Commentary on 5:30 RWP -> Study Notes on 5:30 TSK -> Commentary on 5:30 TSK -> Entry for 5:30 WEN -> Notes on 5:30 NTB -> Assurance; Church; Fellowship; Husband; Jesus, The Christ (continued); Marriage; Righteous TTT -> Assurance; Christ is God; Husbands; Titles and Names of Saints; Union With Christ EBD -> Ephesians, Epistle to; Marriage; Wife PWP -> Devotional using 5:30 5:30 - [In Context] And we are his body.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 5:31 DSN -> Synopsis on 5:31 GEB -> Study Notes on 5:31 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:31 JFB -> Commentary on 5:31 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:31 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:31 PNT -> Commentary on 5:31 RWP -> Study Notes on 5:31 TSK -> Commentary on 5:31 TSK -> Entry for 5:31 WEN -> Notes on 5:31 NTB -> Church; Husband; Marriage; Quotations And Allusions; Wife TTT -> Christ is God; Husbands; Union With Christ EBD -> Ephesians, Epistle to; Marriage; Mystery; Wife PWP -> Devotional using 5:31 5:31 - [In Context] As the Scriptures say, "A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one." F11
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 5:32 DSN -> Synopsis on 5:32 GEB -> Study Notes on 5:32 GSB -> Study Notes on 5:32 JFB -> Commentary on 5:32 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 5:32 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 5:32 PNT -> Commentary on 5:32 RWP -> Study Notes on 5:32 SRN -> Study Notes on 5:32 TSK -> Commentary on 5:32 TSK -> Entry for 5:32 NTB -> Church; Fellowship; Husband; Marriage; Righteous TTT -> Christ is God; Husbands; Union With Christ EBD -> Ephesians, Epistle to; Marriage; Mystery; Wife PWP -> Devotional using 5:32 5:32 - [In Context] This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one.
FOOTNOTES: F10: Greek having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word. F11: Gen 2:24.

Abbreviations Legend: BCC - Burton Coffman; DSN - Darby's Synopsis; GEB - Gill's Exposition; GSB - Geneva Study Bible; JFB - Jamieson, Fausset, Brown; MHC-COM - Matthew Henry Complete; MHC-CON - Matthew Henry Concise; PNT - People's New Testament; RWP - Robertson's Word Pictures; SRN - Scofield Reference Notes; TSK - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge; WEN - Wesley's Explanatory Notes; NTB - Nave's Topical Bible; TSK - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge; TTT - Torrey's Topical Textbook; EBD - Easton's Bible Dictionary; SBD - Smith's Bible Dictionary; TV - Today's Verse; PWP - Praying With Paul; SPG - Spurgeon's Morning & Evening; Copyright Statement - Holy Bible, The New Living Translation copyright © 1996 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved. For more information about the NLT, please click here.