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Ephesians 5:22-33
LIBERTY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

EXERGETICAL PAPER: EPHESIANS 5:22-33

Submitted to Dr. Steve Waechter, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion of the course,

NBST 652
Hermenetics

by
Eric Jones
07/15/2012

Ephesians 5:22-33 (KJV)
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23 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.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Bibliography
Barclay, William. The Letters to the Galatians and Ephesians. The Daily Study Bible Series. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1976.
Calvin, John. Commentaries on Galatians & Ephesians. Translated by John Owen. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1999..
Carson, D.A. & Moo, Douglas Introduction To The New Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing Co., 2005.
Henry, Matthew. Commentary of Acts to Revelation. Hendrickson Publishing, 1998
Lea, Thomas & Black, David

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