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Ephesians 5:22 begins the section traditionally called the “household code” (5:22–6:9), which addresses relationships between wives and husbands, children and parents, slaves and masters. This particular verse builds directly on verse 21 — “submitting to one another in the fear of Christ” — and gives specific shape to how that mutual submission is expressed in marriage. Rather than grounding this command in culture, Paul roots it theologically: Christian wives are to submit to their own husbands as to the Lord.

Structural Analysis

Αἱ γυναῖκες τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν ὑποτάσσεσθε ὡς τῷ κυρίῳ

The sentence includes:

Αἱ γυναῖκες – “wives,” the subject, in the nominative plural.… Learn Koine Greek