33Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
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While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. …
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire,(for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
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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