Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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:

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 all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus -- giving thanks to the God and Father, through him. 18 The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord; 19 the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

Cross References

1 Corinthians 11:3

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

Ephesians 5:22-9

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

Genesis 3:16

Unto the woman He said, 'Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband is thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

Esther 1:20

and the sentence of the king that he maketh hath been heard in all his kingdom -- for it is great -- and all the wives give honour to their husbands, from great even unto small.'

Acts 5:29

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, 'To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

1 Corinthians 14:34

Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;

Ephesians 5:3

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

1 Timothy 2:12

and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness,

Titus 2:4-5

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,

1 Peter 3:1-6

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

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