Ephesians 5:22
20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
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.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
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 yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Read in context1 Peter 3:1–6
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
Read in contextTitus 2:5
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Read in contextGenesis 3:16
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Read in contextEsther 1:20
And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
Read in contextEphesians 5:22–6:9
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Read in context1 Timothy 2:11–12
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Read in contextEsther 1:16–18
And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
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