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Ephesians 5:26-28
1599 Geneva Bible
Ephesians 5:26-28
1599 Geneva Bible
26 [a]That he might [b]sanctify it, and cleanse it by the washing of water through the [c]word,
27 That he might make it unto himself a glorious Church, [d]not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it should be holy and without blame.
28 [e]So ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies: he that loveth his wife, loveth himself.
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- Ephesians 5:26 Because many men pretend the infirmities of their wives to excuse their own hardness and cruelty, the Apostle willeth us to mark what manner of Church Christ gat, when he joined it to himself, and how he doth not only not loathe all her filth and uncleanness, but ceaseth not to wipe the same away with his cleanness, until he have wholly purged it.
- Ephesians 5:26 Make it holy.
- Ephesians 5:26 Through the promise of free justification and sanctification in Christ, received by faith.
- Ephesians 5:27 The Church, as it is considered in itself, shall not be without wrinkle, before it come to the mark it shooteth at: for while it is in this life, it runneth in a race: but if it be considered in Christ, it is clean and without wrinkle.
- Ephesians 5:28 Another argument: Every man loveth himself, even of nature: therefore he striveth against nature that loveth not his wife: he proveth the consequent, first by the mystical knitting of Christ and the Church together, and then by the ordinance of God, who saith, that man and wife are as one, that is, not to be divided.
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