Ephesians 5:22

WIVES, be subject to your husbands as to our Lord.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

In Context

21And be subject one to another in the love of the Meshiha.

23For the husband is the head of the wife, as the Meshiha is the head of the church, and he himself is the Saviour of the body.

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:22WIVES, be subject to your husbands as to our Lord.

1 Timothy 2:11Let the wife in quietude learn with all submission:

1 Peter 3:1So you also, wives, be subject to your own husbands, that them who have not obeyed the word, by your comely manners without labour you may win,

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 →

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