22 (A)[a]Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands, [b]as unto the Lord.

23 (B)[c]For the husband is the wife’s head, even as Christ is the head of the Church, [d]and the same is the Savior of his body.

24 [e]Therefore as the Church is in subjection to Christ, even so let the wives be to their husbands in everything.

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 5:22 Now he descendeth to a family, dividing orderly all the parts of a family. And he saith that the duty of wives consisteth herein, to be obedient to their husbands.
  2. Ephesians 5:22 The first argument, for they cannot be disobedient to their husbands, but they must resist God also, who is the author of this subjection.
  3. Ephesians 5:23 A declaration of the former saying: Because God hath made the man head of the woman in matrimony, as Christ is the head of the Church.
  4. Ephesians 5:23 Another argument: Because the good estate of the wife dependeth of the man, so that this submission is not only just, but also very profitable: as also the salvation of the Church is of Christ, although far otherwise.
  5. Ephesians 5:24 The conclusion of the wives’ duty towards their husbands.

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