Ephesians 5:22 KJV — MannaFest

Ephesians 5:22

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

KJV

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ASV

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

WEB

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

YLT

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

DBT

Wives, [submit yourselves] to your own husbands, as to the Lord,

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Ephesians — The cosmic letter. Chapters 1–3 set out what believers are in Christ — positional truth stretching from before the foundation to the fullness of times. Chapters 4–6 call the believer to walk worthy of it.

Author: Paul (1:1)
Date: c. AD 60–62, from Roman imprisonment

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Colossians 3:18
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
1 Peter 3:1–6
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
Titus 2:5
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Genesis 3:16
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Esther 1:20
And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.

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to the end he speaks of the duties of husbands and wives; and he speaks of these in a Christian manner, setting the church as an example of the wife's subjection, and Christ as an example of love in husbands. The duty prescribed to wives is submission to their husbands in the Lord (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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EPH 5:22TIT 2:5 COL 3:18
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
EPH 5:22GEN 3:16 1CO 11:3
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
EPH 5:22TIT 2:5 PRO 31:10-31
EPH 5:22GEN 3:16 TIT 2:5
EPH 5:22GEN 3:16 EPH 5:22-24
EPH 5:22GEN 3:16 1TI 2:15
EPH 5:22COL 3:18 TIT 2:4-5
EPH 5:22TIT 2:5 1TI 5:13-14

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