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Ephesians 5:23
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Ephesians 5:23 Meaning and Commentary
Ephesians 5:23
For the husband is the head of the wife
(See Gill on 1 Corinthians 11:3).
Even as Christ is the head of the church;
all the elect; (See Gill on Ephesians 1:22). And he is the Saviour of the body; not "of our body", as the Ethiopic version reads, of that part of man, which is called the body; though that indeed is redeemed and saved by Christ, as well as the soul; but "of his body", as the Vulgate Latin version reads; that is, of the church, which is his body; see ( Ephesians 1:23 ) ; of which he is the Saviour; he provides everything for it, preserves and protects it, and has wrought out salvation for it, which every member of it partakes of.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Ephesians 5:23 In-Context
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and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.
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Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord .
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For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body.
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But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.
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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
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