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Ephesians 5

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Bible part
  
New Testament

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Pauline epistles

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Ephesians 5

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Epistle to the Ephesians

Ephesians 5 is the fifth chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle.

Contents

Text

  • The original text is written in Koine Greek.
  • Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter are:
  • Papyrus 46 (ca. AD 200)
  • Papyrus 49 (3rd century)
  • Codex Vaticanus (AD 325-350)
  • Codex Sinaiticus (AD 330-360)
  • Codex Alexandrinus (ca. AD 400-440)
  • Codex Freerianus (ca. AD 450; extant: verses 6-11, 20-24, 32-33)
  • Codex Claromontanus (ca. AD 550)
  • This chapter is divided into 33 verses.

    • Structure

    This chapter can be grouped (with cross references to other parts of the Bible):

  • Ephesians 5:1-7 = Walk in Love
  • Ephesians 5:8-14 = Walk in Light
  • Ephesians 5:15-21 = Walk in Wisdom
  • Ephesians 5:22-33 = Marriage—Christ and the Church

    • Verse 22

    New King James Version

    Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

    Verse 25

    New King James Version

    Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,

    Verse 28

    New King James Version

    So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.
  • So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies

    • It is a common saying with the Jews, that a man's wife is (wpwgk), "as his own body"; and it is one of the precepts of their wise men, that a man should honour his wife more than his body, (wpwgk hbhaw), and "love her as his body"; for as they also say, they are but one body; the apostle seems to speak in the language of his countrymen; however, his doctrine and theirs agree in this point: wherefore

  • he that loveth his wife loveth himself;

    • because she is one body and flesh with him.

    References

    Ephesians 5 Wikipedia
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