Ephesians 5:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ for the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ For the husband is head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the church, Himself the Savior of [His] body.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

Common English Bible

²³ A husband is the head of his wife like Christ is head of the church, that is, the savior of the body.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the Church. He is the Savior of his body.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body.

Ephesians 5:23 Cross References

Acts 20:28

Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is meant not for sexual immorality but for the Lord and the Lord for the body.

Ephesians 4:15

but speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

Ephesians 5:24

Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands.

Colossians 1:18

He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything.

1 Thessalonians 1:10

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.

Revelation 19:7

Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready;

Revelation 5:9

They sing a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to break its seals, for you were slaughtered and by your blood you ransomed for God saints from every tribe and language and people and nation;