Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord,
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Holman Bible
Wives,
International Standard Version
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as to the Lord.
A Conservative Version
Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.
American Standard Version
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Amplified
Wives, be subject
An Understandable Version
Wives, you should submit to your own husbands, as you would to the Lord.
Anderson New Testament
Wives, be subject to your own husbands as to the Lord:
Bible in Basic English
Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.
Common New Testament
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord.
Daniel Mace New Testament
let married women be submissive to their husbands, out of regard to the Lord.
Godbey New Testament
Wives, be submissive to your own husbands, as to the Lord,
Goodspeed New Testament
You married women must subordinate yourselves to your husbands, as you do to the Lord,
John Wesley New Testament
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as unto the Lord.
Julia Smith Translation
Women, yield ye obedience to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
King James 2000
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Lexham Expanded Bible
--wives to their own husbands as to the Lord,
Modern King James verseion
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Women: submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Moffatt New Testament
Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord,
Montgomery New Testament
Wives likewise to their husbands as to the Lord,
NET Bible
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,
New Heart English Bible
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Noyes New Testament
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord;
Sawyer New Testament
Let wives [be subject] to their husbands as to the Lord,
The Emphasized Bible
Ye wives, unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord,
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Wives should submit to their husbands as submitting to the Lord.
Webster
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Weymouth New Testament
Married women, submit to your own husbands as if to the Lord;
Williams New Testament
You married women must continue to live in subordination to your husbands, as you do to the Lord,
World English Bible
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Worrell New Testament
the wives, to their own husbands, as to the Lord;
Worsley New Testament
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord:
Youngs Literal Translation
The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,
Themes
Body » Jesus Christ being the head of the body (the church)
Home » Husbands and wives » Duties of wives
Man » Jesus Christ being the head of man
Marriage » The duties of a wife
Marriage » What marriage is analogous to
Men » Men being the head of women
Social duties » In relation to food in relation to speech » Wives' duties
Wives » Duties of, to their husbands » To be subject to them
Women » Dress of » Duties of wives
Interlinear
Hupotasso
Idios
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Ephesians 5:22
Images Ephesians 5:22
Prayers for Ephesians 5:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
Being Filled By The Spirit
21 submitting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ. 22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord, 23 for a husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly. He is Saviour of the body.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy travail and thy pregnancy; with pain thou shalt bear children; and to thy husband shall be thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.
Esther 1:20
and when the king's edict which he shall make shall be heard throughout his realm for it is great all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, from the greatest to the least.
1 Corinthians 14:34
Let your women be silent in the assemblies, for it is not permitted to them to speak; but to be in subjection, as the law also says.
Colossians 3:18-1
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Titus 2:5
discreet, chaste, diligent in home work, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.
1 Peter 3:1-6
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, that, even if any are disobedient to the word, they may be gained without the word by the conversation of the wives,
1 Timothy 2:11-12
Let a woman learn in quietness in all subjection;
Ephesians 5:22-9
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord,
Esther 1:16-18
Then said Memucan before the king and the princes, The queen Vashti has 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.