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Ephesians 5:24

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MarriageAuthority and leadership

22 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.

Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

26 to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

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BSB
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
KJV
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
WEB
But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
ASV
But as the church is subject to Christ, so [let] the wives also [be] to their husbands in everything.
DARBY
But even as the assembly is subjected to the Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.
BLB
But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives to [their] husbands in everything.
ÅB
Men slik som menigheten underordner seg under Kristus, slik skal også hustruene underordne seg under sine menn i alle ting.
OTB
Som kirken underordner seg Kristus, slik skal også hustruene underordne seg sine ektemenn i alle ting.
B1930
Men likesom menigheten underordner sig under Kristus, således skal også hustruene underordne sig under sine menn i alle ting.

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