Ephesians 5:21
19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
- KJV
- Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
- WEB
- subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
- ASV
- subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
- DARBY
- submitting yourselves to one another in [the] fear of Christ.
- BLB
- Be submitting to one another in fear of Christ:
- ÅB
- og underordner dere under hverandre i Kristi frykt.
- OTB
- Vis gjensidig underordning i ærefrykt for Kristus.
- B1930
- og underordner eder under hverandre i Kristi frykt.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Philippians 2:3
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Read in contextEphesians 5:24
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Read in contextEphesians 5:22
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Read in contextHebrews 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 joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Read in context1 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 proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Read in context1 Timothy 3:4
One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
Read in context1 Peter 2:17
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
Read in contextGalatians 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.
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