Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,
Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; (l) With an earnest affection of the heart, and not with the tongue only.
19. To psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs. These are truly pleasant and delightful fruits. The Spirit means “joy in the Holy Ghost,” (Romans 14:17;) and the exhortation, be ye filled, (ver. 18,) alludes to deep drinking, with which it is indirectly contrasted. Speaking to themselves, is speaking among themselves.
Submitting yourselves one to another,.... Which may be understood either in a political sense, of giving honour, obedience, and tribute, to civil magistrates, since they are set up by God for the good of men, and it is for the credit of religion for the saints to submit to them; or in an economical sense; thus the wife should be subject to the husband, children...