Ephesians 5:23
Because a husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church, and himself the savior of the body.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
22Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.
24But as the church is subject to the Christ, so also the wives to their own husbands in everything.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 6:13The foods are for the belly and the belly for foods, but God will abolish both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Ephesians 1:22And he subordinated all things under his feet, and appointed him head over all things for the church,
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your own wives even as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it,
1 Thessalonians 1:10and to await his Son from the heavens whom he raised from the dead--Jesus--who rescues us from the coming wrath.
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 →