A moment in scripture
Ephesians 5:22
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Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
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The surrounding passage
- Ephesians 5:20
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
- Ephesians 5:21
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
- Ephesians 5:23
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
- Ephesians 5:24
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.