5:21–6:9 is called a Haustafel (Table of Household Duties). Two similar Haustafeln are presented in Col 3:18–4:1 and 1 Peter 2:13–3:7,6 but only the Ephesian version opens with a call to mutual subordination. In Eph 5:22 ff., the call for specific subordination of one group to another is indissolubly tied to the mutual order proclaimed in 5:21. Except in some variant readings (see fn. 8), the term “subordinate” is not even repeated in vs. 22. The single imperative of vs. 21 (“subordinate yourselves