Ephesians 5:25 (BSB)

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

From Ephesians 5. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Ephesians 5:25

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Ephesians 5:25: 25. Husbands, love your wives. From husbands, on the other hand, the apostle requires that they cherish toward their wives no ordinary love; for to them, also, he holds out the example of Christ, — even as Christ also loved the church. If they are honored to bear his image, and to be, in some measure, his representatives, they ought to resemble him also in the discharge of duty.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Ephesians 5:21-33: Here the apostle begins his exhortation to the discharge of relative duties. As a general foundation for these duties, he lays down that rule Eph 5:21. There is a mutual submission that Christians owe one to another, condescending to bear one another's burdens: not advancing themselves above others, nor domineering over one another and giving laws to one another.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Ephesians 5:25: That he might present it to himself a glorious church,.... There is a presentation of the church by Christ to his Father at his death, when he gathered the elect together in one, brought them nigh, and reconciled them to God, and presented them to holy, unblamable, and unreproveable in his sight; and now in heaven, where he represents their persons, appears and makes intercession...
• Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Ephesians 5:25: Verse 25. Husbands, love your wives. The duty of the wife is to obey; the right of the husband is to command. But the apostle would guard against the abuse of that right by enjoining the manifestation of such a spirit on the husband as would secure obedience on the part of the wife.