Verse 21 specifically states that married people should submit "yourselves one to another in the fear of God." (Campbell 2010) It is very clear that both the husband and the wife are to submit to each other
As the Church must submit to the authority of Christ, so too must a wife submit to the authority of the husband. (Mays 1988) While it is the wife's duty to submit to her husband, it is also the duty of the husband to submit to his wife
The subjection of the wife to the husband is an worldly reflection of the spiritual relationship between the Church and Christ. (Peake 2001) Christ's relationship with the Church is a loving and caring relationship, not a controlling and disrespectful one
" Concordance is well over one-quarter, as "out of 2,411 words in Ephesians, 26.5% are paralleled in Colossians, once with 29 consecutive words repeated verbatim," (Ford, 2001)
As Slusser (2003) points out, it is crucial to use exegetical methods when analyzing Ephesians for its theological messages. Like exegesis, "biblical theology is that discipline which seeks to understand a single author, time period, or type of literature within its historical and cultural context," (Slusser, 2003, p
, Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary (ZIBBC), vol. 3, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002), 301
The richness of God's divine grace and mercy are revealed in elevating those who are spiritually dead to a fresh life in Jesus. Furthermore, we are given an even greater gift by Grance -- beyond just sharing in Jesus's heavenly seat in future, owing to the union of our spirit with Jesus, we have already taken a seat with Jesus in heaven (verses 4-7) (Arroyo 2015)
Verses 1 to 7, in the original Greek, make up a single 124-word sentence, with the subject not appearing until the 4th verse, and the key verbs appearing in the 5th and 6th verses. Therefore, examining this text in small sections is helpful in order to understand and appreciate Christian life's vision, as displayed by the author (Carlson 2009)
However, Ephesians 2:6 states that, we have been raised up with Christ, and made to sit alongside him in heaven. That is, according to this verse, man's resurrection-unity with Jesus has already been achieved (Donovan 2012)
e. The epistle's second half, describes man's previous separation from the covenant promises of God to Israel, as well as its current unification with Him and with all children of God (that is, both Gentiles and Jews) (Schaub 2007)
Ephesians 2:1-10 directly follows the epistle's introductory material. Paul begins his sermon by reminding readers of God's redemptive work to their lives (Scroggins n