Ephesians 5:23-25 KJV

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:24

In every thing - That is, every lawful thing; for it is not intimated that they should obey their husbands in any thing criminal, or in any thing detrimental to the interests of their souls. The husband may be profligate, and may wish his wife to become such also; he may be an enemy to true religion, and use his authority to prevent his wife from those means of grace which she finds salutary to her soul; in none of these things should she obey him. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives - Here is a grand rule, according to which every husband is called to act: Love your wife as Christ loved the Church. But how did Christ love the Church? He gave himself for it - he laid down his life for it. So then husbands should, if necessary, lay down their lives for their wives: and there is more implied in the words than mere protection and support; for, as Christ gave himself for the Church to save it, so husbands should, by all means in their power, labor... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:23

Verse 23 23.For the husband is the head of the wife. This is the reason assigned why wives should be obedient. Christ has appointed the same relation to exist between a husband and a wife, as between himself and his church. This comparison ought to produce a stronger impression on their minds, than the mere declaration that such is the appointment of God. Two things are here stated. God has given to the husband authority over the wife; and a resemblance of this authority is found in Christ, who... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:24

Verse 24 24.But, as the church is subject to Christ. The particle but, may lead some to believe that the words, he is the savior of the body, are intended to anticipate an objection. Christ has, no doubt, this peculiar claim, that he is the Savior of the Church: nevertheless, let wives know, that their husbands, though they cannot produce equal claims, have authority over them, after the example of Christ. I prefer the former interpretation; for the argument derived from the word but, ( ἀλλά,)... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:25

Verse 25 25.Husbands, love your wives. From husbands, on the other hand, the apostle requires that they cherish toward their wives no ordinary love; for to them, also, he holds out the example of Christ, — even as Christ also loved the church. If they are honored to bear his image, and to be, in some measure, his representatives, they ought to resemble him also in the discharge of duty. And gave himself for it. This is intended to express the strong affection which husbands ought to have for... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:22-23

Relative duties. I. DUTY OF WIVES . "Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands." 1. Ground of subjection . 2. Manner and extent of subjection . II. DUTY OF HUSBANDS . Husbands, love your wives. As the husband excels in the governing qualities, so she excels in the lovable qualities. "For softness she, and sweet attractive grace." If it can be said that he has more power , it can be said that (by her pure and modest feeling, her deep tenderness and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:22-24

The duties of wives. In enforcing relative duties the apostle reminds us that religion takes hold of all possible conditions and callings of men. Religion is the great formative grace for men. We are set in a curiously various scheme of relations, in which the two principles of union and subjection are beautifully blended. The three relations in which these principles are seen in operation are peculiar to family life. The wife is first mentioned, then the children, then the servants.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:22-33

Duties of wives and husbands. The Apostle Peter, in his First Epistle, after dwelling on the privileges of believers, strongly urges them to have their conversation honest or fair among the Gentiles, exemplifying, by the purity and beauty of their life, the excellence of the principles and privileges of the gospel; and then he branches out into three cases or relations that afford scope for this mode of life—that of subjects to their rulers, that of servants to their masters, and that of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:22-33

What husbands and wives owe to Christ. In exhorting the Ephesians to purity and enthusiasm of life, Paul is naturally led to the family institution and the relations to be found there. In the heathen world the relations between men and women were degrading. As Pressense says, in his most suggestive book, 'La Famille Chretienne,' "One found in the pagan family neither purity nor love. At the moment when Jesus Christ came, it had reached the last degree of degradation, and one can apply to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:22-33

Ideal marriage. "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the Head of the Church: and he is the Savior of the body. Therefore as the Church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word, that he might present... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:24

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:25

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:23

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:24

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 5:25

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:22-23

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:22-24

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:22-33

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:22-33

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:22-33

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