Ephesians 5:22
Wives should be submissive to their husbands, as to the Lord.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
In Context
21Be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.
Cross References
Genesis 3:16To the woman, he also said: “I will multiply your labors and your conceptions. In pain shall you give birth to sons, and you shall be under your husband’s power, and he shall have dominion over you.”
Esther 1:20And let this be published in all the provinces of your empire, (which is very wide,) and let all wives, the greater as much as the lesser, give honor to their husbands.”
Ephesians 5:22Wives should be submissive to their husbands, as to the Lord.
1 Timothy 2:11Let a woman learn in silence with all subjection.
1 Peter 3:1Similarly also, wives should be subject to their husbands, so that, even if some do not believe the Word, they may benefit without the Word, through the behavior of these 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 →