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Ephesians 5:22

Ephesians chapter 5 · verse 22 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Context

v.21subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

v.22This passage

v.23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Corinthians 14:34

    let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law.

  • Genesis 3:16

    Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

  • Ephesians 5:22

    Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

  • 1 Peter 3:1

    In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

  • Esther 1:16

    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 peoples that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.

  • Colossians 3:18

    Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.