Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is appropriate for those who belong to the Lord.

A Conservative Version

Wives, be ye submissive to your own husbands as is proper in Lord.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

Wives, be subject to your husbands [out of respect for their position as protector, and their accountability to God], as is proper and fitting in the Lord.

An Understandable Version

You wives should submit to your husbands, as this is proper in [the fellowship of] the Lord.

Anderson New Testament

Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it is becoming in the Lord.

Bible in Basic English

Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as is right in the Lord.

Common New Testament

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

Daniel Mace New Testament

Dames, be submissive to your husbands, as becomes christians.

Darby Translation

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

Godbey New Testament

Ye wives, submit to your husbands as is becoming in the Lord.

Goodspeed New Testament

You married women must subordinate yourselves to your husbands, for that is your duty as Christians.

John Wesley New Testament

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands (as is fit) in the Lord.

Julia Smith Translation

Women, place yourselves under your own husbands, as was permitted in the Lord.

King James 2000

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fitting in the Lord.

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

Modern King James verseion

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as is becoming in the Lord.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Wives, submit your own selves unto your own husbands, as it is comely in the Lord.

Moffatt New Testament

Wives, be subject to your husbands; that is your proper duty in the Lord.

Montgomery New Testament

Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting for Christians.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

Noyes New Testament

Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Sawyer New Testament

Wives, be subject to the husbands, as is fit in the Lord.

The Emphasized Bible

Ye wives! be submitting yourselves unto your husbands, as is becoming in the Lord;

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Wives be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord.

Twentieth Century New Testament

Wives, submit to your husbands, as befits those who belong to the Lord.

Webster

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Weymouth New Testament

Married women, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Williams New Testament

You married women must continue to live in subordination to your husbands, for this is your Christian duty.

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as it was fitting in the Lord.

Worsley New Testament

Wives, be subject to your husbands, as becometh you in the Lord:

Youngs Literal Translation

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
γυνή 
Gune 
Usage: 187

ὑποτάσσω 
Hupotasso 
Usage: 39

ἴδιος 
Idios 
Usage: 96

ἀνήρ 
Aner 
man, husband, sir, fellow, not tr
Usage: 198

as
ὡς 
Hos 
as, when, how, as it were, about,
Usage: 417

it is fit
ἀνήκω 
Aneko 
be convenient, be fit
Usage: 3

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

Context Readings

Mutual Responsibilities In Christian Relationships

17 And whatever ye do whether in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to the God and Father by him. 18 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter against them.


Cross References

1 Corinthians 11:3

But I would have you know that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

Ephesians 5:22-9

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

Genesis 3:16

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

Esther 1:20

And this sentence which the king shall make shall be heard throughout all his empire, although it is great, and all the wives shall give their husbands honour, from the greatest to the least.

Acts 5:29

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We must persuade God rather than men.

1 Corinthians 14:34

Let your women keep silence in the congregations , for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be in subjection, as also saith the law.

Ephesians 5:3

But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named among you as becomes saints,

1 Timothy 2:12

For I do not allow a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over a mature man, but to be at rest.

Titus 2:4-5

that they may teach the young women to be prudent, to love their husbands, to love their children,

1 Peter 3:1-6

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, so that also those who do not obey the Word, may be won without a word by the conversation of their wives,

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