Eph 5:21-24 | PNT | STEP | Submitting yourselves one to another . Filled with the Spirit, we "speak in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs" ( ), "give thanks", ( ), and submit ourselves to each other in the fear of God . This last duty belongs to the relations of life. One of these relations is of "husbands and wives" ( ); another of "children and parents" ( ); another still of "servants and masters" ( ).

Ephesians 5:21-24

Submitting yourselves one to another. Filled with the Spirit, we "speak in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs" (Eph 5:19), "give thanks", (Eph 5:20), and submit ourselves to each other in the fear of God. This last duty belongs to the relations of life. One of these relations is of "husbands and wives" (Eph 5:22-32); another of "children and parents" (Eph 6:1-4); another still of "servants and masters" (Eph 6:5-9). Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands. Mutual duties are named. The husband should "love his wife as Christ loved the church" (Eph 5:23), and the wife should submit to this loving husband "as unto the Lord". The husband is the head of the wife. Every organization must have a head. The husband is the "head" of the family, but must be willing to give himself for it. The head of the family can only rule the wife in the most devoted love (Eph 5:25,33). As the church is subject unto Christ. The relation of the wife to the husband is like that of the church in Christ, a close, tender relations, in which there is no bondage, but freedom, because the service is that of the heart.