Ephesians 5
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A fragment showing Ephesians 4:16-29 on recto side of Papyrus 49 from the third century. | |
| Book | Epistle to the Ephesians |
| Bible part | New Testament |
| Order in the Bible part | 10 |
| Category | Pauline epistles |
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.[1][2]
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
Cross reference
Verse 22
- Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.[3]
Verse 25
- Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,[4]
Verse 28
- So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.[5]
- 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";[6] 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";[7] for as they also say, they are but one body;[8] the apostle seems to speak in the language of his countrymen; however, his doctrine and theirs agree in this point: wherefore[9]
- he that loveth his wife loveth himself;
because she is one body and flesh with him.[9]
See also
- Christian marriage
- Jesus Christ
- Other related Bible parts: Genesis 2, Genesis 3, Jeremiah 8, Jeremiah 23, Ephesians 6, Colossians 3, 1 Peter 3.
References
- ↑ Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an abbreviated Bible commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.
- ↑ Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
- ↑ Ephesians 5:22
- ↑ Ephesians 5:25
- ↑ Ephesians 5:28
- ↑ T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 24. 1. & Becorot, fol. 35. 2. Maimon. Hilchot Becorot, c. 2. sect. 17. Tzeror Hammor, fol. 18. 2
- ↑ T. Bab. Yebamot, fol. 62. 2. & Sanhedrin, fol. 76. 2. Derech Eretz, fol. 17. 4. Maimon Hilchot Ishot, c. 15. sect. 19.
- ↑ Tzeror Hammor, fol. 6. 3.
- 1 2 John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible, - Ephesians 5:28
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