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Ephesians 5:24
Therefore, as the Church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
Therefore, as the Church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
Verse 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 thei...
IN EVERYTHING - In everything which is not contrary to the will of God; see the notes on Ephesians 5:23....
4. MANIFESTATION IN THE FAMILY-RELATIONSHIP Chapter S 5:22-6:4 _ 1. Wives representative of the Church (Ephesians 5:22)_ 2. Husbands representative of Christ (Ephesians 5:25) 3. The mystery: concer...
EPHESIANS 5:22 TO EPHESIANS 6:9. SUBORDINATION IN THE FEAR OF CHRIST. The principle is illustrated by the relation (_a)_ of wives to husbands, (_b)_ of children to parents, (_c_) of slaves to masters....
THE IMITATION OF GOD (Ephesians 5:1-8)...
Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord; for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church, though there is this great difference, that Christ is the Saviour...
THEREFORE. But. SUBJECT. The same as "submit" in Ephesians 5:21....
_Therefore_ Translate, certainly, BUT. The Apostle has guarded the husband s headship from undue comparison with the Lord's; but now he enforces its true likeness to it. _their own_ There is an empha...
Special Exhortations: the Christian Home: Wife and Husband 22. _Wives_ Cp. Colossians 3:18; 1 Peter 3:1-6. In Col. the corresponding instructions about domestic duty are drawn expressly from the truth...
ἈΛΛᾺ ὩΣ Ἡ ἘΚΚΛΗΣΊΑ ὙΠΟΤΆΣΣΕΤΑΙ ΤΩ͂Ι ΧΡΙΣΤΩ͂Ι. On the description of the Church as the Bride of the Christ, see Hort _Christian Ecclesia_, pp. 150 f. It is based on the O.T. Primarily on Hosea 2 (cf. R...
Ephesians 5:22 to Ephesians 6:9. HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS IN CHRISTIAN LIGHT Cf. Colossians 3:18 to Colossians 4:1;...
ΥΠΟΤΆΣΣΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.), см._ Ephesians 5:21. _Praes._ указывает на длительное действие или состояние, ΟΫΤΩΣ (G3774) так....
DISCOURSE: 2121 THE MARRIAGE UNION Ephesians 5:21. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the he...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 5:21-33) C. Subject yourselves one to another. Ephesians 5:21-33; Ephesians 6:1-9. 1. The command....
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. THEREFORE, [ alla (G235)] - "But;" i:e., though the husband be not, as Christ, Saviour of t...
__ No Participation with Unbelievers 2 The sacrifice of Christ has many aspects. The opening Chapter s of Leviticus deal with these in detail. The sin and trespass offering seem to be entirely for m...
THE OLD DARKNESS AND NEW LIGHT. RULES FOR THE MARRIED 1, 2. In close connexion with what precedes. 'It is the mark of beloved children to become imitators of a loving Father; practise the self-sacrif...
Accepting protection implies submission. 25-33. The love of husbands to their wives corresponds to Christ's love to His Church, for which He sacrificed Himself, to hallow it, to present it to Himself,...
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ CHAPTER 5 5:1-14 ~ LOVE 5:1-7 ~ LIVE IN LOVE V1 You must try to be as much like God as you can. You are his...
AND HE IS THE SAVIOUR OF THE BODY. THEREFORE... — The words “and” and “is” are wrongly inserted, and the word “therefore” is absolutely an error, evading the difficulty of the passage. It should be, _...
(4 _a._) In Ephesians 5:22. St. Paul passes from warning against special sins to consider the three great relations of life, first considered as “subjections,” and so illustrating the general precept...
[5. Practical Exhortation continued (Ephesians 5:22 to Ephesians 6:9). (4) THE BEARING OF THE TRUTH OF UNITY ON THE THREE GREAT RELATIONS OF LIFE. (_a_) _Between husbands and wives_ — a relation w...
CHAPTER 25 ON FAMILY LIFE Ephesians 5:22; Ephesians 6:1. CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE Ephesians 5:22 In mutual subjection the Christian spirit has its sharpest trials and attains its finest temper.
CHAPTER 22 DOCTRINE AND ETHICS Ephesians 4:25; Ephesians 5:1 The homily that we have briefly reviewed in the last chapter demands further consideration. It affords a striking and instructive exampl...
A paragraph which, in dealing with the duties of wives and husbands as seen in the new light of Christian truth, gives the Christian ideal of the marriage-relation. It is the loftiest conception of th...
ἀλλʼ ὥσπερ ἡ ἐκκλησία ὑποτάσσεται τῷ Χριστῷ, οὕτως καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν ἐν παντί : _nevertheless as the Church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be subject to their husbands...
LOVE OF HUSBAND AND WIFE Ephesians 5:22 The Apostle has been urging us to be filled with the Spirit, and now proceeds to show how Spirit-filled people should act in their homes. He has been exhortin...
All that the apostle had been saying was emphasized by the statement of their relationship to God as he called them to be "imitators of God." Again he urged them to put off the old and put on the new....
Submitting To One Another Each follower of Christ is to place himself under the control of fellow followers. This service is to be performed for others out of reverent respect for God who caused his...
(11) Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing. (11) The conclusion of the wives' duties towards their husbands....
_As the church is subject to Christ. The Church then, according to St. Paul, is ever obedient to Christ: and can never fall from him, but remain faithful to him, unspotted and unchanged to the end of...
(22) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. (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. (24)...
In this epistle we have the unfolding of the grace of God in all its fulness, not merely the application of His righteousness to man's need on His part, but God from out of Himself, and for Himself, a...
I. INTRODUCTION A. For the last few week in our study of Ephesians, we have been looking at what the behavior of a Christian should be. 1. Last week we stopped at the end of Chapter 5 verse 20, wher...
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...
Moreover, let us remark here, and it is an important feature in this picture of the fruits of grace and of the new man, that when the grace and love, which come down from God, act in man, they always...
THEREFORE AS THE CHURCH IS SUBJECT UNTO CHRIST,.... Her head, being wholly dependent upon him, and entirely resigned to him, and receiving all from him; from whom alone is all her expectation of provi...
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so _let_ the wives _be_ to their own husbands in every thing. Ver. 24. _Therefore as the Church_] Denying herself to please Christ, making his will her...
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 the...
IN EVERY THING; see note to chap Ephesians 6:1....
WALK IN LOVE (vs.1-7) Verses 1 and 2 of chapter 5 are closely connected with verse 32 of chapter 4. God's gracious character of love that delights to have us as His dear children is our example. The...
CHAPTER 5 We must not follow the ways of the old man. We must be ______________ of God. He is our Father. We are his _____________. We must __________ in love because Christ loved us. He gave himsel...
“BUT AS THE CHURCH IS SUBJECT TO CHRIST, SO LET THE WIVES ALSO BE TO THEIR HUSBANDS IN EVERYTHING” “But as”: “Paul is thinking of. voluntary, free, joyful and thankful partnership, as the analogy of t...
22-33 The duty of wives is, submission to their husbands in the Lord, which includes honouring and obeying them, from a principle of love to them. The duty of husbands is to love their wives. The lov...
AS THE CHURCH IS SUBJECT TO CHRIST, viz. with cheerfulness, chastity, humility, obedience, &c. SO LET THE WIVES BE TO THEIR OWN HUSBANDS; in imitation of the church's subjection to Christ, as a patter...
Ephesians 5:24 Therefore G235 as G5618 church G1577 subject G5293 (G5743) Christ G5547 so G3779 G2532 wives...
‘But as the church is subject to Christ so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.' The wife is to follow the pattern of the people of God who are submissive to Christ ‘in everything'....
HUSBANDS AND WIVES ARE A PATTERN OF CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH (5:22-33). In this passage there is a constant movement from the husband wife relationship to that of Christ and His church. In one sense it i...
1. _Christian Duties of Wives and Husbands._ All the relative duties discussed in this portion of the Epistle are based upon the fact of a common relation to Christ: the exhortations are all ‘in the L...
Ephesians 5:24. BUT. This is strongly adversative; notwithstanding this difference the resemblance in the matter of duty remains. The other explanations are far less satisfactory. AS THE CHURCH IS SU...
IV. SPECIAL CHRISTIAN DUTIES IN HOUSEHOLD RELATIONS. (1.) Of wives and husbands; chap. Ephesians 5:22-33. (2.) Of children and parents; chap. Ephesians 6:1-4. (3.). Of servants and masters; chap. Ephe...
BUT (αλλα). Perhaps, "nevertheless," in spite of the difference just noted. Once again the verb υποτασσω has to be supplied in the principal clause before τοις ανδρασιν either as indicative (υποτασ...
Ephesians 5:22 On Marriage. I. Consider how the earthly and the heavenly views of Christian marriage which the Apostle presents to us are thoroughly one, and cannot be separated. It was an old delusi...
Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye therefore followers of God,_ Or, imitators of God,- Ephesians 5:1. _As dear children;_ Children are naturally imitators. They are usually inclined to imitate their father; thi...
CONTENTS: Walk of the believer as God's child. The believer's warfare as filled with the Spirit. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: As members of the family of God, it is our duty to put on...
Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye followers of God as dear children,_ for children are expected to walk in their father's steps. He sends us rain and fruitful seasons, he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the...
IN THE SAME WAY. The _Expositor's Greek Testament_ says: "Christ indeed is Savior of the body, and that the husband is not; nevertheless the question of _obedience_ is not affected thereby; for all th...
_Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord._ RELATION OF HUSBAND AND WIFE 1_._For the duly--“Submit yourselves.” Subjection in the general on God’s part noteth the subordinatio...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 5:23 THE HUSBAND IS THE HEAD OF THE WIFE. The wife’s submission to her husband is modeled on Christ’s position as HEAD OF THE CHURCH and ITS SAVIOR.
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 5:22. SUBMIT YOURSELVES.—Same word as in previous verse; neither here nor there does it involve any loss of self-respect. The wife’s tribute to her husband’...
EXPOSITION EPHESIANS 5:1 BE YE THEREFORE IMITATORS OF GOD, AS CHILDREN BELOVED. These words are closely connected with the preceding. In Ephesians 4:32 he had urged the example of God in one very mo...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Ephesians, chapter 5. Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children (Ephesians 5:1); Now, the therefore immediately points you back, back to the last verse of...
Colossians 3:20; Colossians 3:22; Ephesians 5:33; Exodus 23:13;...
Therefore [α λ λ α]. Rev, correctly, but. Offsetting the relation of savior. The comparison does not hold in respect of salvation, but it does hold in respect of subjection. 26 Sanctify and cleanse ...
FOLLOWERS OF GOD Ephesians 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The opening verse of today's chapter has a clear and clarion call to the children of God. It is something that we may not sidetrack or push aside....
In everything — Which is not contrary to any command of God....