| Ephesians 5:32 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | This is a great mystery. (I'm talking about Christ's relationship to the church.)(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. |
| ASV: | This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church. |
| BBE: | This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church. |
| DBY: | This mystery is great, but I speak as to Christ, and as to the assembly. |
| ERV: | This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church. |
| WEY: | That is a great truth hitherto kept secret: I mean the truth concerning Christ and the Church. |
| WBS: | This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. |
| WEB: | This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly. |
| YLT: | this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly; |
| Ephesians 5:32 Cross References |
| XREF: | Ephesians 5:31 FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.
Ephesians 5:33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 5:32 {15} This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
(15) That no man might dream of natural union or knitting of Christ and his Church together (such as the husbands and the wives is) he shows that it is secret, that is, spiritual and such as differs greatly from the common capacity of man. And it consists by the power of the Spirit, and not of the flesh, by faith, and by no natural bond. |
| PNT: | 5:32 This is a great mystery. The wonders of this marriage tie, but especially that the marriage of the first Adam should prefigure the relation between the second Adam and the church. |
| MHC: | 5:22-33 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 love of Christ to the church is an example, which is sincere, pure, and constant, notwithstanding her failures. Christ gave himself for the church, that he might sanctify it in this world, and glorify it in the next, that he might bestow on all his members a principle of holiness, and deliver them from the guilt, the pollution, and the dominion of sin, by those influences of the Holy Spirit, of which baptismal water was the outward sign. The church and believers will not be without spot or wrinkle till they come to glory. But those only who are sanctified now, shall be glorified hereafter. The words of Adam, mentioned by the apostle, are spoken literally of marriage; but they have also a hidden sense in them, relating to the union between Christ and his church. It was a kind of type, as having resemblance. There will be failures and defects on both sides, in the present state of human nature, yet this does not alter the relation. All the duties of marriage are included in unity and love. And while we adore and rejoice in the condescending love of Christ, let husbands and wives learn hence their duties to each other. Thus the worst evils would be prevented, and many painful effects would be avoided. |
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