King James Version
Ephesians 5:24 in the King James Version says “Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.” — study this verse from Ephesians chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.”
Ephesians 5:24 · KJV
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 saviour of the body.
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
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,
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Therefore”
G235properly, other things, i.e., (adverbially) contrariwise (in many relations)
“the church”
G1577a calling out, i.e., (concretely) a popular meeting, especially a religious congregation (jewish synagogue, or christian community of members on earth
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
“be to their own”
G2398pertaining to self, i.e., one's own; by implication, private or separate
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