Ephesians 5:33 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³³ Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³³ Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³³ However, let each man of you [without exception] love his wife as [being in a sense] his very own self; and let the wife see that she respects and reverences her husband [that she notices him, regards him, honors him, prefers him, venerates, and esteems him; and that she defers to him, praises him, and loves and admires him exceedingly]. [I Pet. 3:2.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³³ Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Common English Bible

³³ In any case, as for you individually, each one of you should love his wife as himself, and wives should respect their husbands.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³³ Yet truly, each and every one of you should love his wife as himself. And a wife should fear her husband.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³³ Nevertheless let every one of you in particular love his wife as himself: and let the wife fear her husband.

Ephesians 5:33 Cross References

1 Kings 1:31

Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground and did obeisance to the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever!”

Esther 1:20

So when the decree made by the king is proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, vast as it is, all women will give honor to their husbands, high and low alike.”

Psalm 45:11

and the king will desire your beauty. Since he is your lord, bow to him;

Ephesians 5:22

Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord,

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

Ephesians 5:32

This is a great mystery, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly.

Hebrews 12:9

Moreover, we had human parents to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not be even more willing to be subject to the Father of spirits and live?