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Ephesians 5:21-23
1599 Geneva Bible
Ephesians 5:21-23
1599 Geneva Bible
21 [a]Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
22 ¶(A)[b]Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands, [c]as unto the Lord.
23 (B)[d]For the husband is the wife’s head, even as Christ is the head of the Church, [e]and the same is the Savior of his body.
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- Ephesians 5:21 A short repetition of the end whereunto all things ought to be referred, to serve one another for God’s sake.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Ephesians 5:21-23
New International Version
Ephesians 5:21-23
New International Version
Instructions for Christian Households(A)
21 Submit to one another(B) out of reverence for Christ.
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands(C) as you do to the Lord.(D) 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church,(E) his body, of which he is the Savior.
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