Ephesians 5:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

Ephesians 5:26 —

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Cross-References

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John 15:3
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Hebrews 10:22
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
John 17:17-19
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. …
Ezekiel 36:25
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
John 3:5
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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. Paul was an example of this truly…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

26. sanctify--that is, consecrate her to God. Compare Joh 17:19, meaning, “I devote Myself as a holy sacrifice, that My disciples also may be devoted or consecrated as holy in (through) the truth” [Neander] (He 2:11; 10:10; 13:12 see on He 10:10). and cleanse--rather, as Greek, “cleansing,” without the “and.” with the washing of water--rather as Greek, “with,” or “by the laver of the water,” namel…