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Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
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A Voluntary Deference
Commentators clarify that this submission is not about obeying a tyrant, but a voluntary deference to a husband's leadership. It is described as an attitude prompted by the husband's unselfish love (v. 19) and a wife's conscious decision to honor her husband for the sake of a well-ordered home. It is never to be forced upon her by a demanding husband.
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Wives (κα γυναικες). The article here distinguishes class from class and with the vocative case can be best rendered "Ye wives." S…
19th Century
Anglican
As it is fit in the Lord.—For the explanation of this special fitness “in the Lord,” i.e., in virtue of Christia…
Baptist
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
It is fitting according to nature; and it is still more fi…
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The one duty Paul enjoins on the wife is to “submit” (GK 5718), an attitude that recognizes the rights of authority. His main thought is that the w…
16th Century
Protestant
Wives, be subject. Now follow particular duties, as they are called, which depend on the specific vocations of individuals. In discussing …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands The apostle proceeds from those duties which related to them as church members o…
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Presbyterian
The epistles most concerned with displaying the glory of Divine grace and magnifying the Lord Jesus are also the most particular in emphasizing the…
13th Century
Catholic
Having given a general direction to all, Paul now begins to give particular directions. First, he gives special directions that relate to the vario…
