Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
32This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.
Cross References
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 5:25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
Colossians 3:19Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
1 Peter 3:2beholding your chaste behavior [coupled] with fear.
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 →