Ephesians 5:23
Verse 23 of 33. The 5th of 6 chapters in Ephesians, in The Letters of Paul.
19Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
20Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
21Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
22Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23For 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.
24Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Ephesians 5:23 in the World English Bible
For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.Read Ephesians 5:23 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Ephesians 5:23
The apostle assigns the reason of this submission from wives: For the husband is the head of the wife, v. 23. The metaphor is taken from the head in the natural body, which, being the seat of reason, of wisdom, and of knowledge, and the fountain of sense and motion, is more excellent than the rest of the body.
Read Matthew Henry on Ephesians 5:21–33: Duties of Husbands and Wives. (a. d. 61.)
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