Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Ephesians 5:21, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Philippians 2:3
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
- Ephesians 5:24
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
- Ephesians 5:22
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
- Hebrews 13:17
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with …
- 1 Peter 5:5
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the…
- 1 Timothy 3:4
One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
- 1 Peter 2:17
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
- Galatians 5:13
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
- 1 Timothy 2:11
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
- 1 Corinthians 16:16
That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.
- Romans 13:1
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
- Proverbs 24:21
My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
More to meet God in Ephesians
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.