Ephesians 5:22 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²² Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² Wives, be subject (be submissive and adapt yourselves) to your own husbands as [a service] to the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Common English Bible

²² For example, wives should submit to their husbands as if to the Lord.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² Wives should be submissive to their husbands, as to the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord:

Ephesians 5:22 Cross References

Genesis 3:16

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

Esther 1:20

And when the king's decree, which he shall make, shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honor, both to great and small.

Esther 1:22

for he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.

1 Corinthians 14:34

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

Ephesians 5:22

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

Ephesians 6:5

Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

Colossians 3:1

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

Colossians 3:18

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

Titus 2:5

to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.