21Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
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Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-33)Here the apostle begins his exhortation to the discharge of relative duties. As a general foundation for these duties, he lays down that rule Eph. 5:21. There is a mutual submission that Christians owe one to another, condescending to bear one another’s burdens: not advancing themselves above others, nor domineering over one another and giving laws to one another. Paul was an example of this truly…
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