Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ephesians 5:25
Even as Christ loved the church — Here is the true model of conjugal affection. With this kind of affection, with this degree of it, and to this end, should husbands love their wives.
Even as Christ loved the church — Here is the true model of conjugal affection. With this kind of affection, with this degree of it, and to this end, should husbands love their wives.
Verse 25. _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? _H...
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...
4. MANIFESTATION IN THE FAMILY-RELATIONSHIP Chapter S 5:22-6:4 _ 1. Wives representative of the Church (Ephesians 5:22)_ 2. Husbands representative of Christ (Ephesians 5:25) 3. The mystery: concer...
EPHESIANS 5:22 TO EPHESIANS 6:9. SUBORDINATION IN THE FEAR OF CHRIST. The principle is illustrated by the relation (_a)_ of wives to husbands, (_b)_ of children to parents, (_c_) of slaves to masters....
Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord; for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church, though there is this great difference, that Christ is the Saviour...
THE IMITATION OF GOD (Ephesians 5:1-8)...
LOVE, LOVED. App-135. GAVE. gave up. See Ephesians 5:2. IT. her (feminine pronoun)....
Special Exhortations: the Christian Home: Wife and Husband 22. _Wives_ Cp. Colossians 3:18; 1 Peter 3:1-6. In Col. the corresponding instructions about domestic duty are drawn expressly from the truth...
_Husbands_ Here the instruction is equally precise and more full. Cp. 1 Peter 3:7. _love_ "in deed and in truth" (1 John 3:18), "giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel" (1 Pet., quoted...
THE DUTY OF THE HUSBAND...
25. The primary duty on the husband’s side is self-sacrificing affection. The pattern of Christ in this respect is concrete enough. It has already been dwelt upon in Ephesians 5:2. It is worth noting...
Ephesians 5:22 to Ephesians 6:9. HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS IN CHRISTIAN LIGHT Cf. Colossians 3:18 to Colossians 4:1;...
ΟΊ ΆΝΔΡΕΣ (G435) _voc._ вы, мужчины. В аттическом греческом _пот._ с артиклем использовалось только в грубом обращении по отношении к нижестоящим. Однако, в НЗ это правило не соблюдается, и _пот._ с а...
DISCOURSE: 2121 THE MARRIAGE UNION Ephesians 5:21. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the he...
DISCOURSE: 2122 THE PERFECTING OF THE CHURCH IS THE END OF ALL THAT CHRIST HAS DONE FOR IT Ephesians 5:25. Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 5:21-33) C. Subject yourselves one to another. Ephesians 5:21-33; Ephesians 6:1-9. 1. The command....
(5:25) Husbands are commanded to "love your wives". "Love" is agape in the Greek. This is source love that requires no particular response on the part of the one loved. It is a unilateral command and...
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 'Thou hast seen the measure of obedience; now hear the measure of love. Do you wish your wife to obey you,...
__ No Participation with Unbelievers 2 The sacrifice of Christ has many aspects. The opening Chapter s of Leviticus deal with these in detail. The sin and trespass offering seem to be entirely for m...
THE OLD DARKNESS AND NEW LIGHT. RULES FOR THE MARRIED 1, 2. In close connexion with what precedes. 'It is the mark of beloved children to become imitators of a loving Father; practise the self-sacrif...
Government must be unselfish-for the good of the governed: cp. Ephesians 5:2....
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ CHAPTER 5 5:1-14 ~ LOVE 5:1-7 ~ LIVE IN LOVE V1 You must try to be as much like God as you can. You are his...
(25-27) In these verses we trace, under the nuptial metaphor, a clear description of the three great stages in salvation — justification in His “giving Himself for us, sanctification in the “cleansing...
HUSBANDS, LOVE YOUR WIVES, EVEN AS CHRIST ALSO LOVED THE CHURCH. — The love of Christ for His Church is such that He counts Himself incomplete without her (Ephesians 1:23), and raises her to be one wi...
[5. Practical Exhortation continued (Ephesians 5:22 to Ephesians 6:9). (4) THE BEARING OF THE TRUTH OF UNITY ON THE THREE GREAT RELATIONS OF LIFE. (_a_) _Between husbands and wives_ — a relation w...
(4 _a._) In Ephesians 5:22. St. Paul passes from warning against special sins to consider the three great relations of life, first considered as “subjections,” and so illustrating the general precept...
CHAPTER 22 DOCTRINE AND ETHICS Ephesians 4:25; Ephesians 5:1 The homily that we have briefly reviewed in the last chapter demands further consideration. It affords a striking and instructive exampl...
CHAPTER 25 ON FAMILY LIFE Ephesians 5:22; Ephesians 6:1. CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE Ephesians 5:22 In mutual subjection the Christian spirit has its sharpest trials and attains its finest temper.
οἱ ἄνδρες, ἀγαπᾶτε τὰς γυναῖκας [ἑαυτῶν], καθὼς καὶ ὁ Χριστὸς ἠγάπησε τὴν ἐκκλησίαν : _husbands, love your wives, even as also Christ loved the Church_. The reflexive ἑαυτῶν introduced by the TR after...
A paragraph which, in dealing with the duties of wives and husbands as seen in the new light of Christian truth, gives the Christian ideal of the marriage-relation. It is the loftiest conception of th...
LOVE OF HUSBAND AND WIFE Ephesians 5:22 The Apostle has been urging us to be filled with the Spirit, and now proceeds to show how Spirit-filled people should act in their homes. He has been exhortin...
All that the apostle had been saying was emphasized by the statement of their relationship to God as he called them to be "imitators of God." Again he urged them to put off the old and put on the new....
The Love of Husbands for Their Wives If the husband exhibits the love talked about in 5:25, most wives would readily submit to him. The love a husband is to have is not erotic or passionate, but inte...
(12) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; (12) The husbands duty towards their wives is to love them as themselves, of which love the love of Chri...
(22) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. (23) For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. (24)...
In this epistle we have the unfolding of the grace of God in all its fulness, not merely the application of His righteousness to man's need on His part, but God from out of Himself, and for Himself, a...
_AN EVERYDAY EXHORTATION_ ‘Husbands, love your wives.’ Ephesians 5:25 This exhortation was never more needed than in the present day. The decay of home life is due to the loosening of the marriage...
I. INTRODUCTION A. The last few teachings in Ephesians we have concentrated on Christian behavior. 1. Last week, we specifically dealt with the behavior of a Godly wife as it related to her husband....
25._Husbands, love your wives. _From husbands, on the other hand, the apostle requires that they cherish toward their wives no ordinary love; for to them, also, he holds out the example of Christ, — _...
Moreover, let us remark here, and it is an important feature in this picture of the fruits of grace and of the new man, that when the grace and love, which come down from God, act in man, they always...
HUSBANDS, LOVE YOUR WIVES,.... Which consists in a strong and cordial affection for them; in a real delight and pleasure in them; in showing respect, and doing honour to them; in seeking their content...
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; Ver. 25. _Husbands, love your wives_] He saith not, rule over them (in answer to submit, Eph 5:22), for this...
The apostle now proceeds to speak of the duty of husbands to their wives, the principal of which consists in their loving them, without which they would abuse their power to tyranny and oppression. Bu...
AS CHRIST-LOVED THE CHURCH; with a pure, ardent, self-sacrificing love....
THE DUTIES OF HUSBANDS AND WIVES AS SHOWN BY THE RELATION OF CHRIST TO THE CHURCH. Ephesians 5:22 The exhortation with its basis:...
HUSBANDS, LOVE YOUR WIVES, EVEN AS CHRIST ALSO LOVED THE CHURCH, AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR IT,...
WALK IN LOVE (vs.1-7) Verses 1 and 2 of chapter 5 are closely connected with verse 32 of chapter 4. God's gracious character of love that delights to have us as His dear children is our example. The...
CHAPTER 5 We must not follow the ways of the old man. We must be ______________ of God. He is our Father. We are his _____________. We must __________ in love because Christ loved us. He gave himsel...
“HUSBANDS, LOVE YOUR WIVES, EVEN AS CHRIST ALSO LOVED THE CHURCH, AND GAVE HIMSELF UP FOR IT” “Love”: The love demanded of the husband by God is the highest form of love ever known to man (1 Corinthia...
22-33 The duty of wives is, submission to their husbands in the Lord, which includes honouring and obeying them, from a principle of love to them. The duty of husbands is to love their wives. The lov...
HUSBANDS, LOVE YOUR WIVES, EVEN AS CHRIST ALSO LOVED THE CHURCH, viz. with a sincere, pure, ardent, and constant affection. As they resemble Christ in the honour they have of being the heads of their...
Epistle of Ignatius to Polycarp In like manner also, exhort my brethren, in the name of Jesus Christ, that they love their wives, even as the Lord the Church.[30] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V...
Ephesians 5:25 Husbands G435 love G25 (G5720) your G1438 wives G1135 as G2531 Christ G5547 also G2532 loved...
‘Husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for it, that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word that he might present th...
HUSBANDS AND WIVES ARE A PATTERN OF CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH (5:22-33). In this passage there is a constant movement from the husband wife relationship to that of Christ and His church. In one sense it i...
Ephesians 5:25. HUSBANDS, LOVE YOUR WIVES. This is the husband's duty, corresponding to the relative position, as indicated in Ephesians 5:23. EVAN AS CHRIST ALTO LOVED THE CHURCH. Comp. Ephesians 5:...
IV. SPECIAL CHRISTIAN DUTIES IN HOUSEHOLD RELATIONS. (1.) Of wives and husbands; chap. Ephesians 5:22-33. (2.) Of children and parents; chap. Ephesians 6:1-4. (3.). Of servants and masters; chap. Ephe...
1. _Christian Duties of Wives and Husbands._ All the relative duties discussed in this portion of the Epistle are based upon the fact of a common relation to Christ: the exhortations are all ‘in the L...
EVEN AS CHRIST ALSO LOVED THE CHURCH (καθως κα ο Χριστος ηγαπησεν την εκκλησιαν). This is the wonderful new point not in Colossians 3:19 that lifts this discussion of the husband's love for his wif...
EVEN AS CHRIST Christ's love-work for the church is threefold: past, present, future: (1) PAST; For love, He gave Himself to redeem the church (Ephesians 5:25); (2) PRESENT; In love, He is sanctify...
Ephesians 5:25 I. The love of Christ. None of us, it is truly said, is a stranger to this master emotion of the human soul. Flowing through the earth like streams amid desert sands, shining in life's...
Ephesians 5:22 On Marriage. I. Consider how the earthly and the heavenly views of Christian marriage which the Apostle presents to us are thoroughly one, and cannot be separated. It was an old delusi...
Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye therefore followers of God,_ Or, imitators of God,- Ephesians 5:1. _As dear children;_ Children are naturally imitators. They are usually inclined to imitate their father; thi...
CONTENTS: Walk of the believer as God's child. The believer's warfare as filled with the Spirit. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: As members of the family of God, it is our duty to put on...
Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye followers of God as dear children,_ for children are expected to walk in their father's steps. He sends us rain and fruitful seasons, he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the...
LOVE YOUR WIVES. This modifies the relationship. The word here for love is AGAPE. If the wife's duty is submission, the husband's is love - a love like Christ's! This gives Paul an opportunity to poin...
_Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church._ THE LOVE OF JESUS FOR HIS CHURCH I. The chosen Church, the object of the Saviour’s love. 1. Observe what this Church was by nature...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 5:25 LOVE. Paul now turns to the duty of husbands. Paul tells the husband to give HIMSELF UP FOR HER. Husbands are to love their wives in a self-sacrificial manner, followi...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 5:22. SUBMIT YOURSELVES.—Same word as in previous verse; neither here nor there does it involve any loss of self-respect. The wife’s tribute to her husband’...
EXPOSITION EPHESIANS 5:1 BE YE THEREFORE IMITATORS OF GOD, AS CHILDREN BELOVED. These words are closely connected with the preceding. In Ephesians 4:32 he had urged the example of God in one very mo...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Ephesians, chapter 5. Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children (Ephesians 5:1); Now, the therefore immediately points you back, back to the last verse of...
1 Peter 1:18; 1 Peter 3:7; 1 Timothy 2:6; 2 Samuel 12:3; Acts 20:28;...
FOLLOWERS OF GOD Ephesians 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The opening verse of today's chapter has a clear and clarion call to the children of God. It is something that we may not sidetrack or push aside....
The apostle having propounded the wife's duty first, recommends the husband's duty next; her's was the duty of submission; his, of love and entire affection. This the apostle mentions, because the hus...