Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. New Living Translation This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. English Standard Version This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. Berean Standard Bible This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church. Berean Literal Bible This mystery is great; but I speak as to Christ and as to the church. King James Bible This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. New King James Version This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. New American Standard Bible This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. NASB 1995 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. NASB 1977 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. Legacy Standard Bible This mystery is great, but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. Amplified Bible This mystery [of two becoming one] is great; but I am speaking with reference to [the relationship of] Christ and the church. Christian Standard Bible This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church. Holman Christian Standard Bible This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church. American Standard Version This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church. Aramaic Bible in Plain English This is a great mystery, but I am speaking about The Messiah and about his church. Contemporary English Version This is a great mystery, but I understand it to mean Christ and his church. Douay-Rheims Bible This is a great sacrament; but I speak in Christ and in the church. English Revised Version This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church. GOD'S WORD® Translation This is a great mystery. (I'm talking about Christ's relationship to the church.) Good News Translation There is a deep secret truth revealed in this scripture, which I understand as applying to Christ and the church. International Standard Version This is a great secret, but I am talking about the Messiah and the church. Literal Standard Version this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the Assembly; Majority Standard Bible This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church. New American Bible This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and the church. NET Bible This mystery is great--but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church. New Revised Standard Version This is a great mystery, and I am applying it to Christ and the church. New Heart English Bible This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the church. Webster's Bible Translation This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Weymouth New Testament That is a great truth hitherto kept secret: I mean the truth concerning Christ and the Church. World English Bible This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and the assembly. Young's Literal Translation this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Wives and Husbands…31“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” 32This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church. 33Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.… Cross References Ephesians 5:31 "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." Ephesians 5:33 Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. Revelation 19:7 Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him the glory. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready. Treasury of Scripture This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. a great. Ephesians 6:19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, Colossians 2:2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; 1 Timothy 3:8,16 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; … speak. Psalm 45:9-17 Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir… Song of Solomon 1:1-8:14 The song of songs, which is Solomon's… Isaiah 54:5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called. Jump to Previous Assembly Christ Church Great Hitherto Kept Mean Mystery Profound Reference Refers Regard Secret Speak Speaking Talking Truth WordsJump to Next Assembly Christ Church Great Hitherto Kept Mean Mystery Profound Reference Refers Regard Secret Speak Speaking Talking Truth WordsEphesians 5 1. After general exhortations to love;3. to flee sexual immorality; 4. and all uncleanness; 7. not to converse with the wicked; 15. to walk carefully; 18. and to be filled with the Spirit; 22. he descends to the particular duties, how wives ought to obey their husbands; 25. and husbands ought to love their wives, 32. even as Christ does his church. (32) This is a great mystery.--Rather, This mystery is a great one. The words apply to the type, as well as to the Antitype. (1) The indissoluble and paramount sacredness of marriage, as all history shows, is "a mystery"--that is (see Ephesians 1:9), a secret of God's law, fully revealed in Christ alone. For in heathen, and, to some extent, even in Jewish thought, marriage was a contract far less sacred than the indissoluble tie of blood; and wherever Christian principle is renounced or obscured, that ancient idea recurs in modern times. It may be noted that from the translation here of the word "mystery," by sacramentum in the Latin versions, the application of the word "sacrament" to marriage arose. (2) But the following words, "But I" (the word "I" being emphatic) "speak concerning Christ and the Church," show--what indeed the whole passage has already shown--that St. Paul's chief thought has passed from the type to the Antitype. He has constantly dwelt on points which suit only Christ's relation to the Church, and to that relation he has, by an irresistible gravitation of thought, been brought back again and again. (3) Yet the two cannot be separate. The type brings out some features of the Antitype which no other comparison makes clear; and history shows that the sacredness of the type in the Church has depended on this great passage--bearing, as it does, emphatic witness against the ascetic tendency to look on marriage as simply a concession to weakness, and as leading to a life necessarily lower than the celibate life.Verse 32. - This mystery is a great one; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the Church. The matter referred to is the typical relation between the marriage of man and wife, and the union of Christ and the Church. It is called a mystery, and it is not said, as is said of another mystery, referred to before (Ephesians 3:5), that it has been completely explained. Some light has been thrown upon it, but that is all. It is implied that there is something of mystery in many of the relations between things natural and things spiritual, but that in the depth and grandeur of the subject, the mystery connected with the marriage relation is pre-eminent - it is "a great mystery" The analogy of the wind to the Holy Spirit; the springing up of plants to the resurrection; the melancholy sounds of nature to the prevalence of sin; and many other analogies, present vague shadows of truth, the clear, full forms of which we cannot see. When the day breaks and "the shadows flee away," such things will appear in a clearer light. Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Thisτοῦτο (touto) Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Neuter Singular Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it. mystery μυστήριον (mystērion) Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular Strong's 3466: From a derivative of muo; a secret or 'mystery'. is ἐστίν (estin) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist. profound, μέγα (mega) Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular Strong's 3173: Large, great, in the widest sense. but δὲ (de) Conjunction Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc. I ἐγὼ (egō) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 1st Person Singular Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I. am speaking λέγω (legō) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular Strong's 3004: (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command. about εἰς (eis) Preposition Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases. Christ Χριστὸν (Christon) Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 5547: Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. the τὴν (tēn) Article - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. church. ἐκκλησίαν (ekklēsian) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 1577: From a compound of ek and a derivative of kaleo; a calling out, i.e. a popular meeting, especially a religious congregation. Links Ephesians 5:32 NIVEphesians 5:32 NLT Ephesians 5:32 ESV Ephesians 5:32 NASB Ephesians 5:32 KJV Ephesians 5:32 BibleApps.com Ephesians 5:32 Biblia Paralela Ephesians 5:32 Chinese Bible Ephesians 5:32 French Bible Ephesians 5:32 Catholic Bible NT Letters: Ephesians 5:32 This mystery is great but I speak (Ephes. Eph. Ep) |
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