<p>5:22 <i>Wives, submit to your husbands, as to the Lord</i>- This is a specific example of the principle of :21; we should submit to all in the Lord's body &quot;out of reverence for Christ&quot;, because each member represents Him. Women were to see in their husbands the representation of the Lord Jesus, just as all members of the church were to see it in each other. Perhaps Paul particularly mentions the case of women because there may have been a tendency in Ephesus for women not to respect their believing husbands.</p>