Ephesians 5:22
Wives, [submit yourselves] to your own husbands, as to the Lord,
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
In Context
21submitting yourselves to one another in [the] fear of Christ.
Cross References
Genesis 3:16To the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy travail and thy pregnancy; with pain thou shalt bear children; and to thy husband shall be thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.
Esther 1:20and when the king's edict which he shall make shall be heard throughout his realm for it is great all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, from the greatest to the least.
Ephesians 5:22Wives, [submit yourselves] to your own husbands, as to the Lord,
1 Timothy 2:11Let a woman learn in quietness in all subjection;
1 Peter 3:1Likewise, wives, [be] subject to your own husbands, that, even if any are disobedient to the word, they may be gained without [the] word by the conversation 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 →