Passage

The instruction to husbands

Source and translation

World English Bible, Protestant Edition · Public domain · en

²⁵Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her,

Ephesians 5:25World English Bible, Protestant Edition

The scene

The letter commands husbands to love their wives and takes Christ’s giving of himself for the assembly as its comparison.

To understand

The previous instruction addresses wives. The sentence following this one describes Christ’s purpose of sanctifying and cleansing the assembly through the washing of water with the word.

A question

What act of Christ provides the comparison for the husbands’ love?