King James Version
Ephesians 5:26 in the King James Version says “That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,” — study this verse from Ephesians chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,”
Ephesians 5:26 · KJV
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
KJV Study — Public Domain
the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative g1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
“he might sanctify”
G37to make holy, i.e., (ceremonially) purify or consecrate; (mentally) to venerate
“the word”
G4487an utterance (individually, collectively or specially),; by implication, a matter or topic (especially of narration, command or dispute); with a negat
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