Ephesians 5:22
Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
In Context
21submitting yourselves to each other in the fear of Christ.
Cross References
Genesis 3:16To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy childbearing, in pain thou shall bring forth children. And thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Esther 1:20And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give to their husbands honor, both to great and small.
Ephesians 5:22Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.
1 Timothy 2:11Let a woman learn in silence in all subjection.
1 Peter 3:1Likewise the wives, being subordinate to their own husbands, so that even if any are disobedient to the word, they will be gained without a word by the behavior of the wives,
Matthew Henry on Ephesians 5:22-33
Duties of Husbands and Wives. ( a. d. 61.) 21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. 22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For 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. 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might… Read the whole commentary →