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Ephesians 5:22-24 KJV
Ephesians · chapter 5 · verses 22–24
22Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.Ephesians 5:22-24 · King James Version
Ephesians 5:22-24 in context
20Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
21Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
22Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
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Key words (Strong's)
- yourselveshypotassōto arrange under, to subordinate, to subject, put in subjection, to subject one s self…G5293 →
- husbandsanērwith reference to sex, of a male, of a husband, of a betrothed or future husband, with…G435 →
- savioursōtērsaviour, deliverer, preserverG4990 →
- ChristchristosChrist = " anointed" , Christ was [and is], anointedG5547 →
- churchekklēsiaa gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place, an assembly…G1577 →
- Wivesgynēa woman of any age, whether a virgin, or married, or a widow, a wife, of a betrothed womanG1135 →
- headkephalēthe head, both of men and often of animals. Since the loss of the head destroys life…G2776 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 21-33