Ephesians 5:23-25 KJV

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ephesians 5:22-24

Ephesians 5:22-24. In the following directions concerning relative duties, the inferiors are all along placed before the superiors, because the general proposition is concerning submission: and inferiors ought to do their duty, whatever their superiors do. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands Unless where God forbids. Otherwise, in all indifferent things, the will of the husband is a law to the wife: as unto the Lord As owning Christ’s authority in your husbands, whose image they... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ephesians 5:25

Ephesians 5:25. The apostle now proceeds to speak of the duty of husbands to their wives, the principal of which consists in their loving them, without which they would abuse their power to tyranny and oppression. But how are they to love them? The apostle says, as Christ loved the church Namely, with a love that is sincere, pure, ardent, constant, and persevering, and notwithstanding the imperfections and failures that they are chargeable with. The true model this of conjugal affection!... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ephesians 5:21-33

Christian relationships (5:21-6:9)People can have good relations with one another only as they consider one another. When they insist on their rights without considering others, they only destroy harmony and fellowship (21).In the next section Paul illustrates this principle in certain family and social relationships. In 5:22-33 he considers the the case of husbands and wives, in 6:1-4 the case of parents and children, and in 6:5-9 the case of masters and servants. In union with Christ, people... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ephesians 5:23

the = a. even as Christ = as Christ also. church . App-186 . and He is = He Himself (being). the saviour = Saviour. Greek. soter ; only here in Eph.: not in Rom., Cor., Gal. the body . See Ephesians 1:23 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ephesians 5:24

Therefore = But. subject . The same as "submit" in Ephesians 5:21 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ephesians 5:25

love, loved . App-135 . gave = gave up. See Ephesians 5:2 . it = her (feminine pronoun). read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ephesians 5:24

But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.In the continuing analogy, the true life of the church is her head, who is Christ; and the true achievement and fulfillment of the wife is in her husband. This is the Christian view of the family. The current social unrest could indicate that this ancient concept will be overturned; but if it is ever supplanted by another, women will not, in any sense, gain by the change. Apart from the teachings of... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of the water with the word.The measure of love that husbands are commanded to give their wives is that of Christ's love of the church. A love that would die for the beloved! Any submission or subjection that a devoted wife might give to her husband would be more than rewarded and justified by such a love as that. Hendriksen was right when he... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 5:23

Ephesians 5:23. The husband is the head of the wife,— It is from the head that the body receives both health and life: St. Paul here pronounces this of Christ, as the head of the church; that by the parallel which he makes use of to represent the relation between husband and wife, he may both shew the wife the reasonableness of her subjection to her husband, and the duty incumbent on the husband to cherish and preserve his wife; as we see that he pursues it in the following verses. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 5:23

23. ( :-.) even as—Greek, "as also." and he is—The oldest manuscripts read, "Himself (being) Saviour," omitting "and," and "is." In Christ's case, the Headship is united with, nay gained by, His having SAVED the body in the process of redemption; so that (Paul implies) I am not alleging Christ's Headship as one entirely identical with that other, for He has a claim to it, and office in it, peculiar to Himself [ALFORD]. The husband is not saviour of the wife, in which particular Christ excels;... read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ephesians 5:22-24

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ephesians 5:25

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ephesians 5:21-33

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ephesians 5:23

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ephesians 5:24

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ephesians 5:25

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ephesians 5:24

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ephesians 5:25

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 5:23

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 5:23

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