22Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
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Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
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; …
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
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.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Commentary
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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