Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Women: submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto 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.
Darby Translation
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as 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.
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 one to another in the fear of God. 22 Women: submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the wife's head, even as Christ is the head of the congregation, and the same is the saviour of the body.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 3:16
And unto the woman he said, "I will surely increase thy sorrow and make thee oft with child, and with pain shalt thou be delivered: And thy lusts shall pertain unto thy husband and he shall rule thee."
Esther 1:20
And when this commandment of the king, which shall be made, is published throughout all his empire - which is great - all women shall hold their husbands in honor; both among great and small."
1 Corinthians 14:34
Let your wives keep silence in the congregations. For it is not permitted unto them to speak: but let them be under obedience, as saith the law.
Colossians 3:18-1
Wives, submit your own selves unto your own husbands, as it is comely in the Lord.
Titus 2:5
to be of discreet, chaste, housewifely, good, and obedient unto their own husbands, that the word of God be not evil spoken of.
1 Peter 3:1-6
Likewise, let the wives be in subjection to their husbands, that even they which believe not the word, may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives:
1 Timothy 2:11-12
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Ephesians 5:22-9
Women: submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Esther 1:16-18
Then said Memucan before the king and the princes, "The queen Vashti hath not only done evil against the king but also against all the princes and all the people in all the lands of king Ahasuerus: