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Ephesians 5:24 KJV
Ephesians · chapter 5 · verse 24
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.Ephesians 5:24 · King James Version
Ephesians 5:24 in context
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,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- husbandsanērwith reference to sex, of a male, of a husband, of a betrothed or future husband, with…G435 →
- subjecthypotassōto arrange under, to subordinate, to subject, put in subjection, to subject one s self…G5293 →
- churchekklēsiaa gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place, an assembly…G1577 →
- ChristchristosChrist = " anointed" , Christ was [and is], anointedG5547 →
- wivesgynēa woman of any age, whether a virgin, or married, or a widow, a wife, of a betrothed womanG1135 →
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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