Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
Wives, be subject 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.
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.
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,
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 subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. 22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the savior of the body.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
Esther 1:20
When the king's decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small."
1 Corinthians 14:34
let the women keep silent in the churches, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the Law also says.
Colossians 3:18-1
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Titus 2:5
to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.
1 Peter 3:1-6
In like manner, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any do not obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;
1 Timothy 2:11-12
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
Ephesians 5:22-9
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Esther 1:16-18
Memucan answered before the king and the officials, "Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the officials and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus.