Ephesians 5:22
20 always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.
24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
- KJV
- Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
- WEB
- Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
- ASV
- Wives, [be in subjection] unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
- DARBY
- Wives, [submit yourselves] to your own husbands, as to the Lord,
- BLB
- wives, to [your] own husbands as to the Lord;
- ÅB
- Dere hustruer! underordne dere under deres egne menn som under Herren!
- OTB
- Hustruer, underordne dere deres egne ektemenn, som til Herren.
- B1930
- I hustruer! underordne eder under eders egne menn som under Herren!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Colossians 3:18–4:1
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Read in context1 Peter 3:1–6
Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives
Read in contextTitus 2:5
to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.
Read in contextGenesis 3:16
To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
Read in contextEsther 1:20
The edict the king issues will be heard throughout his vast kingdom—and so all women, from the least to the greatest, will honor their husbands.”
Read in contextEphesians 5:22–6:9
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
Read in context1 Timothy 2:11–12
A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.
Read in contextEsther 1:16–18
And in the presence of the king and his princes, Memucan replied, “Queen Vashti has wronged not only the king, but all the princes and the peoples in all the provinces of King Xerxes.
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